Burial Ground, Old Pentland is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 September 1979. Burial ground.
Burial Ground, Old Pentland
- WRENN ID
- noble-mullion-clover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 September 1979
- Type
- Burial ground
- OS grid reference
- NT 262 663
- Coordinates
- 55.88445, -3.18071
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The burial ground at Old Pentland dates from possibly the late 17th to early 18th century, with the oldest gravestone dating back to 1624. It features a roughly circular enclosure made of cream sandstone rubble, topped with squared rubble coping. There are later square-plan droved sandstone ashlar piers with polished copes and square caps located to the southeast, along with wrought-iron gates. Adjacent to the gates to the southeast is an 18th-century rectangular-plan sandstone rubble watch house, which has droved margins and is currently roofless. To the south, there is a burial vault of the Gibsone of Pentland aedicule type, dedicated to Thomas Hamilton and dating from around 1839. This rectangular-plan vault is constructed of droved sandstone ashlar and includes a base course, eaves course, and cornice. Each flank has two consoled and pedimented (blinded) windows, with one at the rear (north) and wrought-iron gates at the front (south). The interior features a barrel-vaulted design and a memorial tablet on the inner side of the north end wall.
Local climate
Burial Ground, Old Pentland sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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