Walled Garden, Norton House Hotel, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 May 1991. Walled garden.
Walled Garden, Norton House Hotel, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- sunken-parapet-sedge
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1991
- Type
- Walled garden
- OS grid reference
- NT 135 720
- Coordinates
- 55.93341, -3.38505
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at Norton House Hotel, dating from around 1840, is a large rectangular structure located to the west of the hotel and adjacent to the former stables. It measures approximately 500 meters by 800 meters and is built from squared, coursed whinstone with ashlar coping. Each of the four tall walls features doors. Inside, there is a platform where former greenhouses were situated against the north wall. Currently, there is no remaining garden or vegetation.
Local climate
Walled Garden, Norton House Hotel, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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