Garden Gateway, Moray House, 172 Canongate, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 January 1989. Gateway.

Garden Gateway, Moray House, 172 Canongate, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
guardian-keep-tide
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 January 1989
Type
Gateway
OS grid reference
NT 263 736
Coordinates
55.95033, -3.18029
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Garden Gateway at Moray House, located at 172 Canongate in Edinburgh, dates from around 1625 and is designed in the Renaissance style. This pedestrian gateway features an elaborate strapwork pediment and is situated in the former garden grounds of Moray House. It is constructed of polished ashlar and includes pilastered columns that support a lintel adorned with a swagged frieze and cornice. The gateway is topped with a decorative, scrolled and swagged silhouette strapwork pediment. Additionally, there is a later cast-iron gate with scrolled decoration.

Local climate

Garden Gateway, Moray House, 172 Canongate, 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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