Summerhouse, Glenarch, Gilmerton Road, Dalkeith is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1991. Summerhouse. 1 related planning application.

Summerhouse, Glenarch, Gilmerton Road, Dalkeith

WRENN ID
lone-nave-alder
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 February 1991
Type
Summerhouse
Address
Summerhouse, Glenarch, Gilmerton Road, Dalkeith, EH22 3NJ
OS grid reference
NT 323 671
Coordinates
55.89238, -3.08379
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The summerhouse at Glenarch, located on Gilmerton Road in Dalkeith, dates from around 1890 and is designed in a picturesque, rustic Arts and Crafts style. It is built into the garden wall adjacent to the river to the east of Glenarch House. The structure features four tree trunk columns that support a loggia with a timber-framed central gable. Below the central area, there is a window facing the river, flanked by two rooms that each have canted fronts and leaded pane windows with stained glass roundels. The roof has a complex structure covered with red tiles, and there are leaded flat sections over the loggia on either side. The rear wall is made of ashlar and has large ball finials at the end gables that adjoin the garden wall, with a doorway leading to the river on the right.

Local climate

Summerhouse, Glenarch, Gilmerton Road, Dalkeith receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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