Lord Cockburn's Bath, Bonaly Tower, 65 Bonaly Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 November 2003. Bath, chapel.
Lord Cockburn's Bath, Bonaly Tower, 65 Bonaly Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- slow-storey-frost
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 November 2003
- Type
- Bath, chapel
- OS grid reference
- NT 212 675
- Coordinates
- 55.89429, -3.26135
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Lord Cockburn's Bath is an earlier 19th-century structure located at Bonaly Tower on Bonaly Road in Edinburgh. It features an oval-shaped open bath made of both dressed and undressed sandstone, accompanied by a weir and waterfall. Nearby is a roughly circular structure known as the "Ruined Chapel," which has low enclosing walls and a higher wall at the apse. This site was originally part of the gardens of Bonaly Tower but is now situated within the grounds of a Boy Scout camp.
The bath itself is an oval pool set into sloping ground, with a flat coping around the rim. It is fed by the Dean Burn, which has a small weir upstream and a valve mechanism to control the outflow. The burn flows in a channel around the side of the bath, creating a waterfall below.
The "Ruined Chapel" features a paved circular area surrounded by a low wall or "foundations." There is a slightly higher wall with decorative masonry at the southern end. A mid-20th century stone altar is present, and the virtues expected of Boy Scouts are inscribed on stone plinths that flank the apse.
Local climate
Lord Cockburn's Bath, Bonaly Tower, 65 Bonaly 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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