Duddingston House, Milton Road West, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 July 1966. House, offices. 8 related planning applications.

Duddingston House, Milton Road West, Edinburgh

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Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 July 1966
Type
House, offices
Address
Duddingston House, Milton Road West, Edinburgh, EH15 1RB
OS grid reference
NT 290 723
Coordinates
55.93916, -3.1369
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Duddingston House, designed by Sir William Chambers in 1760 and built between 1763 and 1768, is a two-storey building featuring a five-window main front. It has a fluted tetrastyle Corinthian portico and four-window flanks, topped with a balustrade. The interior showcases fine quality work, including a large stair hall with branching flights. The offices consist of a two-storey pedimented centre with a cupola, linked to two-storey advance wings and a corridor that connects to the main house.

Local climate

Duddingston House, Milton Road West, Edinburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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