Walled Garden, Ravelrig House, 527 Lanark Road West, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 November 1990. Garden.

Walled Garden, Ravelrig House, 527 Lanark Road West, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
stark-turret-hemlock
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 November 1990
Type
Garden
OS grid reference
NT 161 667
Coordinates
55.88652, -3.34243
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Walled Garden at Ravelrig House, located at 527 Lanark Road West in Edinburgh, has its foundations dating from the earlier to mid 18th century, with alterations made in the mid 19th century. This rectangular-plan garden measures 70 by 60 meters and is oriented northwest to southeast. It features a rubble wall with slab coping, along with ashlar margins and dressings. The 19th-century low rubble plinth wall has saddleback coping and cast-iron arrowhead railings along the northern half of the southwest wall, with a two-leaf wooden door positioned to the right of the railings.

There is a blocked door at the western end of the northwest wall, and doors located at both the northern and southern ends of the northeast wall. At the northern end of the garden, there is a greenhouse and a modern wooden implement shed.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Ravelrig House, 527 Lanark Road West, 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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