Sculptured Group, Braehead Mains, 603 Queensferry Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Sculpture.
Sculptured Group, Braehead Mains, 603 Queensferry Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-clay-fog
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Sculpture
- OS grid reference
- NT 179 752
- Coordinates
- 55.96303, -3.31596
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This sculptured group, created by Robert Forrest around 1836, features an equestrian depiction of James V on a rearing horse, being attacked by a pedestrian brigand. It is made from Craigleith stone and is set on a later sandstone platform. An integral tooled sandstone panel is inscribed with the words "James V attacked at Cramond Brig AD 1532".
Local climate
Sculptured Group, Braehead Mains, 603 Queensferry Road, Edinburgh 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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