Gymnasium, Redford Infantry Barracks, Colinton Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 2017. Gymnasium.
Gymnasium, Redford Infantry Barracks, Colinton Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- fallen-flue-gorse
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 2017
- Type
- Gymnasium
- OS grid reference
- NT 222 693
- Coordinates
- 55.91094, -3.24495
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gymnasium at Redford Infantry Barracks on Colinton Road in Edinburgh is a two-storey building with a rectangular plan and seven bays, designed by Harry B Measures and constructed between 1909 and 1915. It features Dutch gables and has flat-roofed extensions on the southwest and northeast sides, along with a gabled extension at the rear (southeast). The exterior is rendered and includes pale ashlar dressings, a base course, and an eaves cornice. The upper storey has large rectangular windows on the side elevations, while the gable ends are adorned with Diocletian windows. The roof is covered with grey slates and has raised skews with scrolled consoles at the ends, as well as a single wallhead chimney stack on the southwest elevation.
The upper storey windows consist of timber frames with 4-pane glazing and top-opening hoppers. The interior, observed in 2016, features a spacious open area with steps leading to a timber gallery at one end and rooms located below. The roof is lined with timber.
Local climate
Gymnasium, Redford Infantry Barracks, Colinton 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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