Gatepiers, Arboretum Avenue, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Gatepiers.
Gatepiers, Arboretum Avenue, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- riven-wattle-swallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Gatepiers
- OS grid reference
- NT 244 747
- Coordinates
- 55.95992, -3.21093
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The gatepiers on Arboretum Avenue in Edinburgh date back to 1774 and are believed to have been designed by David Henderson. They feature grotesque lions on piers that are of the broken pediment type. These gatepiers originally served as the entrance gates to Inverleith House.
Local climate
Gatepiers, Arboretum Avenue, 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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