Calton New Burial Ground, Calton Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 April 1966. Burial ground, watchtower, boundary walls. 2 related planning applications.
Calton New Burial Ground, Calton Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- veiled-arch-cream
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1966
- Type
- Burial ground, watchtower, boundary walls
- Address
- Calton New Burial Ground, Calton Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8DP
- OS grid reference
- NT 266 740
- Coordinates
- 55.9535, -3.1763
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Calton New Burial Ground, opened in 1820, is a large, regularly planned, terraced graveyard located on a sloping site on Calton Hill. It features fine examples of 18th and 19th century gravestones in a variety of styles, including roofless Classical lairs, Gothic gravestones, obelisks, and table stones, one of which has a relief sculpture of Wisdom consoling Misfortune.
The watchtower, built in 1820, is a three-storey circular structure with battlements. It is constructed from squared and coursed rubble with ashlar margins and includes band courses. The third storey has some segmental-arched window openings. An external stone curved staircase, which is cantilevered and has a metal banister, leads to the entrance on the third storey. The tower features polygonal stacks, although some windows are boarded and it has suffered fire damage.
The burial ground is enclosed by tall rubble boundary walls on all sides, which include square-plan gate piers to the northwest topped with low, pyramidal caps.
Local climate
Calton New Burial Ground, Calton 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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