Including Boundary Walls And Gates, Former Dean Cemetery Gate Lodge, 70 Belford Road is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1965. Gate lodge. 1 related planning application.

Including Boundary Walls And Gates, Former Dean Cemetery Gate Lodge, 70 Belford Road

WRENN ID
small-screen-burdock
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 June 1965
Type
Gate lodge
Address
Including Boundary Walls And Gates, Former Dean Cemetery Gate Lodge, 70 Belford Road, EH4 3DW
OS grid reference
NT 237 737
Coordinates
55.95091, -3.22271
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The former Dean Cemetery Gate Lodge, located at 70 Belford Road, was likely built in 1854 by David Cousin. This single-storey building has a roughly T-shaped plan and is constructed from coursed squared rubble, featuring long and short quoins and some moulded surrounds. It has a multi-pitched roof covered with grey slates and is topped with coped sandstone ashlar ridge stacks that have tall clay cans. The building also includes cast-iron rainwater goods.

Surrounding the lodge are low coped boundary walls with square plan piers that have a chamfered base-course and cornice. The boundary is further enhanced by cast-iron railings and gates adorned with foliate decoration.

Local climate

Including Boundary Walls And Gates, Former Dean Cemetery Gate Lodge, 70 Belford Road 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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