Pillar Surmounted By Wyvern, Grange Loan, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Pillar. 3 related planning applications.
Pillar Surmounted By Wyvern, Grange Loan, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- cold-marble-storm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Pillar
- OS grid reference
- NT 259 715
- Coordinates
- 55.93152, -3.18695
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The pillar surmounted by a wyvern on Grange Loan in Edinburgh dates back to the early 18th century. It is a square ashlar pillar, approximately 3 meters high, integrated into the boundary wall of 130 Grange Loan and Lovers' Loan.
The south elevation facing Grange Loan features a rubble base that rises to about 75 centimeters. The pillar itself is fluted and has carved ashlar bands, including two bands with tassel carvings and one blank band. At the top, there is an Ionic style capital, and a plinth supports a carved stone coronet and wyvern, with the wyvern's head facing east. The western face, which faces Lovers' Loan, is made of banded polished ashlar. The pillar is attached to a tall rubble boundary wall to the north.
Local climate
Pillar Surmounted By Wyvern, Grange Loan, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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