Boundary Walls And Gate Piers, Rockville, 3 Napier Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 August 2003. Walls, gatepiers.

Boundary Walls And Gate Piers, Rockville, 3 Napier Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
buried-column-birch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 August 2003
Type
Walls, gatepiers
OS grid reference
NT 240 717
Coordinates
55.93322, -3.21697
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The boundary walls and gate piers at Rockville, located at 3 Napier Road in Edinburgh, were designed by Sir James Gowans in 1858. These features are part of the former Rockville House, which was demolished in 1966. The gate piers are circular in plan and topped with pyramid caps, constructed from rubble that is banded with ashlar. The walls are made of rubble and have bull-faced ashlar copes that are alternately stepped.

Local climate

Boundary Walls And Gate Piers, Rockville, 3 Napier 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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