Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Gallery. 1 related planning application.

Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
dark-bailey-finch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Gallery
Address
Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR
OS grid reference
NT 245 753
Coordinates
55.96502, -3.21015
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Inverleith House, located in the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, was designed by David Henderson in 1774. This building features three storeys, attics, and a basement, constructed from rubble with dressed quoins. It has two-storey north pavilions that are connected to the main house by diagonal screen walls. On the north side, there is a semi-elliptical projection that contains a staircase and a later porch. The building underwent alterations by W W Robertson in 1877 and has been modified again recently.

Local climate

Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place, 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 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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