North Merchiston Cemetery, Ardmillan Terrace, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 February 1993. 2 related planning applications.

North Merchiston Cemetery, Ardmillan Terrace, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
upper-ember-hyssop
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 February 1993
OS grid reference
NT 233 722
Coordinates
55.93701, -3.2289
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The lodge at North Merchiston Cemetery, located on Ardmillan Terrace in Edinburgh, dates from around 1881 and features a modern addition to the north. This two-storey gabled lodge has a single-storey service block to the north, with the first floor breaking the eaves. It is constructed from coursed and stugged sandstone with chamfered arrises and has overhanging eaves with moulded bargeboards on the west side and plain bargeboards on the east. The lodge has small windows and gabled dormerheads on the first-floor windows that also break the eaves. The windows are detailed with ashlar mullions.

On the west elevation, there are three bays, with an advanced gabled bay at the center featuring a modern door and lights within a shouldered doorframe at the ground level, and a window above the door. The flanking bays each have a bipartite window on both floors. To the left, there is a single-storey service wing that is obscured by a modern addition.

The east elevation also has three bays, with an advanced stair bay at the center that includes a door at ground level and a bipartite window above. This is flanked by similarly advanced ground-floor bays with pentice roofs, with the northern bay extending into the service wing. The south elevation is gabled and features a single window in the center on both floors.

The service block is gabled and is adjacent to the north gable of the lodge, linking to a gabled two-storey addition at right angles. There is a modern glazed sun-lounge in the re-entrant angle to the west. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass, and the roof is covered with grey slates. A broad chamfered coped stack is located at the center of the building.

Local climate

North Merchiston Cemetery, Ardmillan Terrace, 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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