Demijohn Cottage, Norton House Hotel , Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 May 1991. Hotel, lodge. 5 related planning applications.
Demijohn Cottage, Norton House Hotel , Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- plain-threshold-ivy
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1991
- Type
- Hotel, lodge
- Address
- Demijohn Cottage, Norton House Hotel , Edinburgh, EH28 8LX
- OS grid reference
- NT 133 720
- Coordinates
- 55.93335, -3.38926
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Demijohn Cottage, located at the Norton House Hotel in Edinburgh, is a single-storey lodge designed in the style of David Bryce in the mid-19th century. It has an asymmetrical, gabled, L-plan layout constructed from squared and snecked whinstone, featuring sandstone ashlar dressings and chamfered margins, along with contrasting quoins.
The south elevation showcases four large masonry blocks, with an advanced gabled bay on the outer left and a gabled porch immediately to the right. The original door has been blocked and replaced with a window. There are two additional windows in the bays to the right. A modern addition is located to the east, which includes an entrance.
The windows are modern plate glass casement and top-hopper types. The lodge has broad, bracketed eaves with plain bargeboards and finials on the gable, and it is topped with a grey slate roof. The shouldered, corniced stacks have chamfered angles.
A modern rubble wall separates the lodge from the avenue leading to Norton House.
The boundary wall consists of stugged coursed red sandstone with ashlar semi-circular coping, and there are ashlar gatepiers topped with corniced, conical caps.
Local climate
Demijohn Cottage, Norton House Hotel , Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 — 5 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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