North Lodge is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970.
North Lodge
- WRENN ID
- tall-arch-smoke
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- OS grid reference
- NT 250 712
- Coordinates
- 55.92854, -3.20118
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
South Lodge is a pair of two-storey, two-bay neo-Georgian gatelodges built between 1930 and 1932 by Auldjo Jamieson and Arnott, with ironwork by Thomas Hadden. The lodges are diagonally set and connected by curving walls that feature late 17th century style gatepiers and railings. They are constructed from cream squared and snecked rubble sandstone, accented with ashlar dressings. The design includes a base course, eaves course, rusticated quoins, and architraves around the doors, while the windows have plain architraves.
The timber sash and case windows are fitted with 12-pane glazing. The roofs are pyramidal and covered with grey pantiles, featuring swept overhanging eaves and central corniced stacks with chamfered angles.
Inside, the lodges have well-preserved late 19th century interiors, as observed in 2014, which include timber panelled doors and timber chimneypieces.
The gatepiers are square and rusticated, topped with moulded copes and garlanded urn finials. The railings display thistle, acorn, and lily motifs, and there were ornamental iron gates that are no longer in place.
Local climate
North Lodge 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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