Garden Temple, Hatton House, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Garden temple.

Garden Temple, Hatton House, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
weathered-span-pearl
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 January 1971
Type
Garden temple
OS grid reference
NT 127 687
Coordinates
55.90393, -3.39772
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Garden Temple at Hatton House in Edinburgh, dated 1704, is a classical garden structure featuring a rusticated round arch with the Lauderdale arms depicted in the keystone. The arch opening is framed by twin fluted Ionic pilasters, and above the two right pilasters is a datestone inscribed with 'Anno dom MDC 1704'. The walls at the rear and sides are made of rubble.

Inside, the temple has a segmental-vaulted roof made of channelled ashlar, with a raised iron plate against the back wall. The side walls include recessed blind windows that are adorned with fluted architraves.

Local climate

Garden Temple, Hatton House, Edinburgh 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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