Walled Garden, Melville Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1991. Walled garden.

Walled Garden, Melville Castle

WRENN ID
odd-transept-lark
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 February 1991
Type
Walled garden
OS grid reference
NT 306 670
Coordinates
55.89148, -3.11109
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Walled Garden at Melville Castle dates from the late 18th to early 19th century. It is a very large walled garden, measuring approximately 160 meters by 110 meters. On the northern wall, there are lean-to potting sheds with three bays, featuring a boarded door in the center flanked by timber sash and case windows. The potting sheds are constructed from rubble and have slated roofs. The garden's walls are brick-lined rubble with a flat ashlar coping.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Melville Castle 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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