Meadowbank Lodge, Duke's Walk, 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.

Meadowbank Lodge, Duke's Walk, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
turning-sill-aspen
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 278 740
Coordinates
55.95431, -3.15783
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Meadowbank Lodge, located at Duke's Walk in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, was designed by Robert Matheson and completed in 1858, with some later additions and alterations. This single-storey and attic Gothic lodge features an asymmetric design with multiple gabled roofs and steep pitches, along with distinctive diamond flues. It is constructed from squared and snecked stugged sandstone, accented with polished dressings and a base course.

The lodge has tripartite and bipartite windows, as well as arrowslits in the gables. The entrance is on the north elevation, featuring an off-centre timber boarded door set in a stop-chamfered Tudor-arched surround. There is a round-arched opening on the west side with a plaque above it. A later lean-to extension has been added to the east.

The windows are later timber casements with plate glass, and the roof is covered with graded grey slates. The building also has stone kneelered skews with gabletted skewputts, along with corniced wallhead and ridge stacks that have diamond flues and octagonal cans.

Local climate

Meadowbank Lodge, Duke's Walk, 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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