Lodge And Gate Piers, Gilmerton House is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 June 1991. 2 related planning applications.
Lodge And Gate Piers, Gilmerton House
- WRENN ID
- last-mantel-larch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1991
- Address
- Lodge And Gate Piers, Gilmerton House, EH39 5LQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 547 775
- Coordinates
- 55.98922, -2.72612
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a circa 1829 lodge designed by William Burn, forming part of the Gilmerton House estate. The lodge is a single-storey building constructed from squared and coursed sandstone with contrasting dressings. It features a gabled porch and a canted bay window facing north. Windows are set into each gable return. Later, harled extensions have been added to the rear. The windows are small diamond-paned casements. Characteristic features include bracketed, overhanging eaves, grey slates, and an ashlar coped ridge stack. Two square ashlar gate piers flank the entrance, each topped with a scrolled ornament and ball finials. The lodge and gate piers are ancillary to Gilmerton House and the Eight Arches, which are listed separately. Original plans for alterations and additions by William Burn are held within the National Monuments Record of Scotland.
Local climate
Lodge And Gate Piers, Gilmerton House receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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