Summerhouse, Arniston House is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1998. Summer house.
Summerhouse, Arniston House
- WRENN ID
- drifting-landing-heath
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1998
- Type
- Summer house
- OS grid reference
- NT 326 594
- Coordinates
- 55.8234, -3.07703
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The summerhouse at Arniston House is an early 20th-century structure. It is a single-storey building with a rectangular plan, featuring three bays and constructed from horizontally boarded timber. The corners are accentuated with vertical timber quoins, and there is an eaves course.
On the west elevation, which serves as the entrance, the design is symmetrical with a central two-leaf glazed and panelled timber door, flanked by a single window on each side. The north and south elevations each have a single window in the centre. The east elevation is blank.
The windows are made of timber and consist of eight panes. The roof is a red tiled piended design, topped with a decorative terracotta ridge, and the building is equipped with cast iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
Summerhouse, Arniston House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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