What is recorded here

Colinton Road gates stand at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, blocking or bending traffic instead of disappearing into background. They mark the edge where the city street stops pretending to be a private drive. That small line of metal or stone still does real work: it tells cars, cyclists and children where one world ends and another begins.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, Colinton Road, Merchiston Castle School, Gates as Gate(s) (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Merchiston Castle, associated with the site on Colinton Road in Edinburgh, was originally built in the 16th century by the Crichton family, a prominent Scottish noble family. It is remembered as the ancestral home of Sir Thomas Crichton, 1st Baronet, and later became the site of Merchiston Castle School, a notable independent school founded in 1935.

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