Remnant of Gulliver Sculpture is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 July 2023. Sculpture.
Remnant of Gulliver Sculpture
- WRENN ID
- calm-foundation-rain
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 July 2023
- Type
- Sculpture
- OS grid reference
- NT 302 713
- Coordinates
- 55.93049, -3.11862
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Remnant of Gulliver Sculpture consists of two surviving fragments of a once extensive concrete play sculpture known as Gulliver, or The Gentle Giant. It is located beside the Niddrie Burn on the west side of Hunter's Hall Public Park in Edinburgh.
Commissioned by the Craigmillar Festival Society in 1976 and designed by Jimmy Boyle, the sculpture was completed by 1978 in a simplified form. Originally, it was a 33-metre-long interactive play sculpture shaped like a stylised human figure lying on the ground, featuring tunnel passageways through its torso and outstretched arms and legs.
The remaining concrete fragments include a left foot with indented toes and incised toenail detailing. To the south, there is a detached rectangular box-tunnel section that was part of the figure's left leg. This tunnel section has side walls with circular openings resembling windows (one of which is damaged) and is set within a smoothly rendered concrete base. The two fragments together measure a combined length of seven metres.
Local climate
Remnant of Gulliver Sculpture receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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