Edgehead Lodge (former Forester's House), Oxenfoord Castle Estate is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 2003. Lodge.

Edgehead Lodge (former Forester's House), Oxenfoord Castle Estate

WRENN ID
waning-brass-rye
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 February 2003
Type
Lodge
OS grid reference
NT 370 653
Coordinates
55.8772, -3.00695
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Edgehead Lodge, formerly known as the Forester's House, is a mid-19th century single-storey, three-bay lodge designed in a T-plan, with a later rear extension. The building is constructed of coursed sandstone, featuring an earlier random rubble base, and has dressed and polished sandstone ashlar surrounds and hoodmoulds.

On the northwest (principal) elevation, there is a central doorway with rybats and smoothed ashlar margins, which is fitted with a later timber door. Flanking the doorway are single windows that have projecting sills, polished margins, and a projecting bracketed hoodmould above.

The northeast, southwest, and southeast elevations were not visible in 2000, as they are concealed behind boundary walls and vegetation.

The front elevation showcases four-pane timber sash and case bipartite windows. The roof is pyramidal with a piended grey slate covering and features zinc ridging. The building has painted cast-iron rainwater goods and two tall octagonal ashlar stacks with projecting neck copes, each topped with a single can—one plain and one replacement.

The interior was not seen in 2001.

The boundary wall and gatepiers consist of a pair of octagonal ashlar gatepiers with corniced tops and pyramidal octagonal caps. The entrance features a pair of open timber gates with long and short ogee-topped planks and cross strutting at the top, middle, and centre. Adjacent to the gates is a coursed rubble wall that transitions to a random rubble wall to the south, both topped with semi-circular stone coping.

Local climate

Edgehead Lodge (former Forester's House), Oxenfoord Castle Estate 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 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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