Bothy, Baberton House is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1998. Bothy.
Bothy, Baberton House
- WRENN ID
- old-chamber-wax
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1998
- Type
- Bothy
- OS grid reference
- NT 190 692
- Coordinates
- 55.9091, -3.29666
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bothy at Baberton House is an earlier 18th century, single-storey building with a rectangular plan and three bays, located to the northwest of Baberton House. It is constructed from tooled random rubble with rubble dressings, featuring long and short quoins and polished lintels.
The southeast elevation is asymmetrical, with a polished doorway at the center that has rounded margins and a replacement timber door. To the right, there is a doorway in a flanking bay with a replacement door, and to the left, there is a window in another flanking bay.
The northeast and southwest elevations are blank, while the northwest elevation was not seen in 1997. The building has a single-pane timber window and a purple-grey slate piended roof with lead ridges and ventilators, along with cast iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 1997.
Local climate
Bothy, Baberton House 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 78% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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