Leuchold Gatelodge, Dalmeny House, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 January 1981. Gate lodge.

Leuchold Gatelodge, Dalmeny House, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
ruined-basalt-juniper
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 January 1981
Type
Gate lodge
OS grid reference
NT 148 779
Coordinates
55.98735, -3.36708
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Leuchold Gatelodge, located at Dalmeny House in Edinburgh, is a single-storey L-plan gate lodge, likely designed by William Wilkins around 1825, which reworks an earlier cottage. The building features squared and snecked rubble with droved and polished dressings, rectangular hoodmoulds, corniced skews at the gableheads, a moulded eaves course, chamfered arrises, long and short quoins, and stone mullions.

On the south elevation, there are two bays, including a bipartite window to the left and another bipartite window in the centre of a projecting gable to the right, with a modern timber door on the return to the left. There is also a later harled and flat-roofed addition on the outer right, which includes a modern door and glazing. A tooled and painted name panel at the quoin on the outer left reads "Leuchold Gate."

The west elevation has a single bay with a bipartite window at the centre and a jerkin-headed gable. The north elevation is three bays wide, featuring a bipartite window in the projecting bay on the right, with single windows at the centre and left. The outer left is harled.

The lodge predominantly has timber sash and case windows with a lying-pane design. It has a graded grey slate roof with tall, octagonal, ashlar sandstone ridge stacks at the centre, topped with circular cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The gatepiers are made of stone and are polygonal with shallow pyramidal caps.

Local climate

Leuchold Gatelodge, Dalmeny House, Edinburgh receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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