Retaining Wall, Regent Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 April 1966.
Retaining Wall, Regent Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-porch-larch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1966
- OS grid reference
- NT 261 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95414, -3.1847
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The retaining wall on Regent Road in Edinburgh was designed by engineer Robert Stevenson and constructed between 1815 and 1818.
Local climate
Retaining Wall, Regent 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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