Walled Garden, Dalhousie Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 May 1999. Walled garden.

Walled Garden, Dalhousie Castle

WRENN ID
tangled-floor-bramble
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 May 1999
Type
Walled garden
OS grid reference
NT 326 642
Coordinates
55.86664, -3.07826
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Walled Garden at Dalhousie Castle was designed by John Hay around 1806 and constructed by Walter Nicol. It features a curved, irregular-plan layout surrounded by high, coped, coursed pink sandstone walls. Within the garden, there is a pink sandstone building that has timber sash and case windows, a blocking course, and a slate piended roof, which has been empty since 1998. On the west side, there is a coped brick and harled wall that runs at right angles to the main wall and incorporates a former gardener's house. To the left of this wall is the entrance to a courtyard that originally contained a melon ground and open sheds. The garden has seen later additions over time.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Dalhousie 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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