Colinton Parish Church Lodge, Dell Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 April 1991. Cottage.

Colinton Parish Church Lodge, Dell Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
low-pewter-martin
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 April 1991
Type
Cottage
Address
Colinton Parish Church Lodge, Dell Road, Edinburgh, EH13 0JR
OS grid reference
NT 215 690
Coordinates
55.9085, -3.25609
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Colinton Parish Church Lodge, built by John Fraser of Colinton around 1811, is a single-storey, three-bay cottage with a piend roof, located on a sloping site at the graveyard. The structure is made of squared snecked sandstone rubble, featuring tooled dressings and quoins. The northwest side has a central timber panelled door with a small-pane fanlight, flanked by windows on both sides. There is a small window at the rear, accompanied by larger windows. The side elevations have 9-pane windows, with the northeast window set in a blocked doorway.

The cottage predominantly features 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. It has corniced wall-head stacks and squat clay cans, topped with graded grey slate.

Local climate

Colinton Parish Church Lodge, Dell 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 78% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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