Holyrood Lodge, Queen's Drive, Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 January 1989. Lodge.
Holyrood Lodge, Queen's Drive, Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- pale-gable-crow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1989
- Type
- Lodge
- OS grid reference
- NT 268 738
- Coordinates
- 55.95173, -3.17306
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Holyrood Lodge, located on Queen's Drive near Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, was designed by Robert Matheson and completed in 1857. This single-storey building with an attic features an irregular plan and a gabled design, showcasing decorative curvilinear bargeboarding and diamond flues. It currently serves as a visitors centre, having been adapted in 2007. The exterior is constructed of droved, snecked ashlar with a base course.
The entrance elevation faces north and includes an off-centre, projecting gabled entrance porch, which has a Tudor-arched door surround and a boarded timber entrance door on its east face. The building is adorned with timber finials on the gables and has a date plaque on the south side inscribed with "VR 1857."
Most of the windows are timber casements with two panes, and the roof is covered with graded grey slates. A central ridge stack features corniced diamond flues. The interior has been comprehensively modernised, although it was only partially seen in 2007.
Local climate
Holyrood Lodge, Queen's Drive, Holyrood Palace, 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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