1A Duddingston Park, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 September 1989. House. 2 related planning applications.
1A Duddingston Park, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- keen-corbel-vermeil
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 September 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1A Duddingston Park, Edinburgh, EH15 1JN
- OS grid reference
- NT 301 734
- Coordinates
- 55.94881, -3.11949
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1A Duddingston Park in Edinburgh is a domestic Gothic house designed by William Lambie Moffat, built between 1875 and 1876. The building features a two-storey rectangular plan constructed from squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. It has chamfered reveals and mannered lintels, along with stone mullions and transoms. The house is adjoined to the boundary walls of the Portobello High School Annexe.
The west elevation has three bays, with a hoodmoulded door at the center flanked by a plate glass fanlight and a small window above. To the outer left, there is a wide gabled bay featuring a tripartite window at ground level and a bipartite window on the first floor, along with a trefoil panel in the gablehead. The outer right has bipartite windows on each floor, with a gabled dormer head at the first floor that breaks the eaves.
The east elevation faces the playground and has a door at the center, with a lean-to play shelter that is continuous with the retaining walls. There are bipartite windows in the outer bays on the first floor, set within a wide gabled bay to the right that also breaks the elevation.
There is a former addition to the south elevation and a single-storey gabled projection on the north elevation. The windows are sash and case with plate glass and small-pane glazing patterns. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the building features ashlar coped skews and end stacks.
The retaining walls and piers are made of stugged sandstone rubble, connected to those of the school, with gablet capped piers at intervals on the west side. A cast-iron arrowhead gate is also present.
Local climate
1A Duddingston Park, Edinburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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