North Entrance, Dalmahoy House is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Gatepiers, wall.

North Entrance, Dalmahoy House

WRENN ID
small-flue-hawk
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 January 1971
Type
Gatepiers, wall
OS grid reference
NT 145 691
Coordinates
55.90809, -3.36824
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The North Entrance of Dalmahoy House, likely designed by William Adam around 1725, features two gatepiers and a boundary wall on the northern access. The gatepiers are fluted with vermiculated bands and channelled quoins. They have a swagged frieze, a deeply-moulded cornice, and a ball finial, although the finial on the right is a modern replacement. The piers are buttressed at the rear, with blinded panels to the right and left of each pier, showcasing ashlar margins and banded vermiculation. The pier cap on the left is set on the wall and includes a frieze with rosettes and a moulded cap. The boundary wall is constructed of rubble with ashlar slab coping, and the wall to the left has been heavily repointed.

Local climate

North Entrance, Dalmahoy House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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