Moredun House, Fettes College, Carrington Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974.

Moredun House, Fettes College, Carrington Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Address
Moredun House, Fettes College, Carrington Road, Edinburgh, EH4 1QR
OS grid reference
NT 237 750
Coordinates
55.96263, -3.22335
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

West Lodge and Gates at Fettes College in Edinburgh were designed by David Bryce in 1874. The gates feature a late Gothic style with two piers that have shafted angles, interlaced arches at the top, and console crowns, along with elaborate cast-iron gates. The railings have simple spikes with floriated finials placed at intervals.

The lodge, built around 1870, is a single-storey structure with an asymmetrical design. It includes simple stop-chamfered piers and railings, an open porch, and a bay window that projects out to a square shape with a gabled roof. The lodge has shafted chimneys and a slated roof with bargeboarded gables.

Another lodge, also designed by David Bryce around 1870, is similar to the first but features a deep parallel-walled approach.

A two-storey and attic structure, designed by Bryce in 1873, is asymmetrical with crow-stepped and bargeboarded gables. The taller section has a bay that is corbelled to a square shape at the attic on the south front, while the east front features a Tudor doorpiece. There is a later, lower western extension that follows the same style.

Another design by Bryce from 1870 is similar to the previous lodge but is reversed, featuring a lower four-window wing on the east side with shafted chimneys and a later eastern addition.

Local climate

Moredun House, Fettes College, Carrington 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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