Walled Garden, Craigiehall is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1998. Walled garden.

Walled Garden, Craigiehall

WRENN ID
sleeping-passage-solstice
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 March 1998
Type
Walled garden
OS grid reference
NT 167 755
Coordinates
55.96527, -3.33574
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Walled Garden at Craigiehall is a roughly rectangular garden built in 1708, possibly designed by Alexander McGill. It features high, coped walls made of random rubble and brick, with a concave corner at the southwest. The garden is located to the northeast of Craigiehall House. The north wall has a red brick inner face and an infilled round-arched doorway with droved margins on the west elevation. There are several openings to the garden, including a segmental-arched red brick doorway in the north wall and two later 20th-century openings on the east wall, which are flanked by pairs of bull-faced, squared, and snecked sandstone gatepiers.

The gatepiers, likely also designed by Alexander McGill, are located at the southwest corner of the garden. They consist of a pair of rectangular sandstone gatepiers that stand between the walled garden and Craigiehall House. Each gatepier has square plinths, carved panels with floreate ribbon swags on the shafts, and corniced coping. One of the gatepiers features a ball finial.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Craigiehall receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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