Broxmouth Park Observatory, Sloebigging is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 October 1980. Observatory.

Broxmouth Park Observatory, Sloebigging

WRENN ID
salt-granite-ridge
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 October 1980
Type
Observatory
OS grid reference
NT 700 778
Coordinates
55.99294, -2.48234
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Broxmouth Park Observatory, built around 1850, is a single-storey octagonal room with an adjoining two-storey tower. The structure is made of squared and snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. It features raised base courses and chamfered arrises around the openings. A moulded cornice runs along the corbelled, crenellated parapets. The doorway at the base of the tower is accessed by a straight flight of steps, and there are windows on all elevations.

Local climate

Broxmouth Park Observatory, Sloebigging receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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