St Leonard's Lodge, 23 Holyrood Park Road, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 October 2003. Lodge.
St Leonard's Lodge, 23 Holyrood Park Road, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- odd-pier-russet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 October 2003
- Type
- Lodge
- OS grid reference
- NT 269 727
- Coordinates
- 55.94179, -3.17188
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Leonard's Lodge, located at 23 Holyrood Park Road in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, was designed by Robert Matheson and built between 1863 and 1865. This picturesque lodge features a T-plan layout with one and two stories and three bays, characterized by distinctive jerkin-headed gables. It is situated at the northwest entrance to the park and has been divided into two flats as of 2007.
The exterior is constructed from dark ashlar sandstone with polished cream margins, and the windows are chamfered. It has a base course and chamfered corners with cyma recta details above. The broad, overhanging eaves enhance its architectural appeal. The east elevation includes a central gabled projecting porch that features a Tudor-arched door surround and a timber boarded entrance door. Above the door, there is a carved inset panel displaying the monogram VR and the probable date of 1865. The north elevation boasts a five-bay timber verandah.
The lodge predominantly has two-pane timber casement windows, with some later additions of skylights. The roof is covered with graded blue and grey slates and features jerkin-headed designs. Tall, coped ridge and wallhead stacks are splayed to the wallhead.
The interior, as seen in 2007, has been comprehensively modernized.
Local climate
St Leonard's Lodge, 23 Holyrood Park Road, Holyrood Park, 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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