View Bank House And Summerhouse, Viewbank View, Bonnyrigg is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1991. Summerhouse.

View Bank House And Summerhouse, Viewbank View, Bonnyrigg

WRENN ID
unlit-lead-plum
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 February 1991
Type
Summerhouse
OS grid reference
NT 312 659
Coordinates
55.88207, -3.09976
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

View Bank House and its summerhouse, built around 1900, feature a charming and rustic timber summerhouse located in the garden of Viewbank House. The summerhouse has a cruciform plan and is gabled with a king post detail. It is timber framed, constructed with logs arranged randomly on a textured cork ground. The windows are leaded and adorned with stained glass floral designs. The roof is made of grey slate with red clay ridge tiles and includes a central pyramidal timber ventilator. Inside, the summerhouse has a timber slatted interior.

Local climate

View Bank House And Summerhouse, Viewbank View, Bonnyrigg 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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