Hot House, Fairfield House, Croft Street, Dalkeith is a Grade A listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 March 1992. Glass house.

Hot House, Fairfield House, Croft Street, Dalkeith

WRENN ID
blind-cellar-fog
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 March 1992
Type
Glass house
OS grid reference
NT 332 670
Coordinates
55.89184, -3.06948
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Hot House at Fairfield House on Croft Street in Dalkeith is an elegant curved glass house built in the earlier to mid-19th century. It has a rectangular plan and is attached to the northern retaining wall of Fairfield House. The structure features a brick heated wall that rises above the glass house, complete with a row of ventilators at the top. The base is made of cast iron with moulded panels, and there are doors on both the east and west sides. Inside, the hot house has a six-bay arcaded cast-iron framework, with decorative cusping on the semicircular arches and fluted piers.

Local climate

Hot House, Fairfield House, Croft Street, 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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