Watch Tower, Burial Ground, St Cuthbert's Church, Lothian Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tower. 1 related planning application.

Watch Tower, Burial Ground, St Cuthbert's Church, Lothian Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
idle-loggia-frost
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Tower
Address
Watch Tower, Burial Ground, St Cuthbert's Church, Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9AN
OS grid reference
NT 247 735
Coordinates
55.94903, -3.20638
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The watch tower at St Cuthbert's Church on Lothian Road dates back to 1827 and was restored in 1990. It is a two-stage circular tower, although only the lower stage is visible from King's Stables Road. The tower is constructed of cream ashlar and features a roll-moulded cill course at the first floor, a moulded eaves course, and a crenellated parapet. The lower stage includes a timber panelled door with a fanlight, set in a cavetto-moulded round-arched surround that leads to the churchyard. The tower also has windows, some of which are blind, all framed in cavetto-moulded surrounds, and features small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows.

Local climate

Watch Tower, Burial Ground, St Cuthbert's Church, Lothian Road, 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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