Lamps And Steps, Railings, Victoria Terrace With Pavement, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Pavement.
Lamps And Steps, Railings, Victoria Terrace With Pavement, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- leaning-courtyard-sunrise
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 2001
- Type
- Pavement
- Address
- Lamps And Steps, Railings, Victoria Terrace With Pavement, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL
- OS grid reference
- NT 255 734
- Coordinates
- 55.94866, -3.19407
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Lamps and steps with railings at Victoria Terrace in Edinburgh were designed by Thomas Hamilton between 1829 and 1834. The area features a stone flagged pavement with a drainage channel, along with decorative cast-iron railings that are placed on a low ashlar coped wall. There is a round-arched entrance leading to a stone staircase, which has droved ashlar walls and a cast-iron handrail. Additionally, there are wall-mounted and standard cast-iron lamps.
Local climate
Lamps And Steps, Railings, Victoria Terrace With Pavement, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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