South Lodge, Hermiston House, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 March 1994. Lodge.

South Lodge, Hermiston House, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 March 1994
Type
Lodge
OS grid reference
NT 175 701
Coordinates
55.91752, -3.32104
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

South Lodge at Hermiston House in Edinburgh is a single-storey lodge built in the early 19th century, likely designed by William Burn. It has a near-rectangular plan with a gabled roof, constructed from stugged, squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and chamfered reveals. The eaves are overhanging.

The south elevation features an asymmetrical M-gable, with a broad bay to the right that includes a canted timber oriel window, which is a later addition. To the left is a lower entrance bay with a boarded door that has cast-iron hinge brackets and a blank plaque in the gablehead. There is also a recessed bay on the outer left.

The west elevation has a broad blank gable, while the north elevation includes a window in the outer right bay, with a modern felt-roofed addition against the outer gable.

The lodge has plate glass sash and case windows, with 6-pane top-hopper windows for the centre window of the oriel and fixed-pane side windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a coped sandstone ridge stack.

In addition to the lodge, there are gatepiers and a boundary wall. The gatepiers to the west of the lodge leading to Hermiston House are made of stugged sandstone with ashlar corniced caps and ball finials. The gatepiers to the east leading into the orchard are tall stugged sandstone with similar ashlar caps. The boundary wall is constructed of rubble with semi-circular coping.

Local climate

South Lodge, Hermiston House, 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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