Garden Pillar, Arniston House is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971.
Garden Pillar, Arniston House
- WRENN ID
- pale-window-stoat
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- OS grid reference
- NT 325 592
- Coordinates
- 55.82152, -3.07784
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1784, this is a circular, carved stone Neoclassical ornamental pillar situated on a square pedestal. The base is stepped, inscribed with the date "1784". The circular shaft features fluting with a central square dividing band course. Carved oval medallions are positioned above and below the shaft, which is surmounted by a marble urn. The urn is adorned with carved heads to the left and right of its base, a carved frieze, and a spherical finial. This unusual garden ornament predates Thomas White’s improvement plan for the grounds, dated 1791, and the subsequent informalising of the estate between 1787 and 1819. Its axial position relative to the house indicates it was originally intended to complement the earlier formal garden layout.
Local climate
Garden Pillar, Arniston House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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