Buccleuch Parish School, Meadow Lane, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. School.

Buccleuch Parish School, Meadow Lane, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
tattered-plaster-hyssop
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
Type
School
OS grid reference
NT 259 727
Coordinates
55.94209, -3.18639
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Buccleuch Parish School, located on Meadow Lane in Edinburgh, was built in 1839 and is designed in the Jacobean style. The building is two stories high and features gabled dormer heads. The north gable front, facing North Meadow Walk, is made of ashlar and includes a five-light rectangular bay adorned with strapwork. At the apex, there is an octagonal belfry feature supported by a corbel. The west flank of the building is constructed from rubble and has five windows with lying panes. There is a doorpiece with cresting situated between the third and fourth windows, and the roof is slated.

Local climate

Buccleuch Parish School, Meadow Lane, 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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