House Adjoining Walled Garden, Colinton House, Colinton Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Cottage.
House Adjoining Walled Garden, Colinton House, Colinton Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tall-ledge-acorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 218 692
- Coordinates
- 55.91012, -3.25214
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, known as the House Adjoining Walled Garden at Colinton House on Colinton Road in Edinburgh, was constructed in 1801 by Richard Crichton, based on a plan by John Fraser from 1795. It is a single-storey, three-bay plain classical cottage featuring a piended roof and a later single-storey extension to the northwest. The exterior is made of coursed rubble with droved ashlar dressings, including a base course and eaves course. The building has tabbed window margins and long and short quoins, and its rear elevation is integrated into the northeast wall of the walled garden.
On the northeast, or principal elevation, there is a modern door that is deeply recessed within a slightly advanced plain architrave, complete with a cornice and blocking course. Windows are located on either side of the door. The cottage predominantly features 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, along with a small 4-pane timber window facing the garden. The roof is covered with graded grey slates and has lead flashings, while tall coped ashlar stacks with yellow clay cans rise from the roof.
Local climate
House Adjoining Walled Garden, Colinton House, Colinton Road, 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 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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