West Pier is a Grade C listed building in the local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 April 2007. Pier. 1 related planning application.
West Pier
- WRENN ID
- floating-stair-summer
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 April 2007
- Type
- Pier
- OS grid reference
- NT 119 787
- Coordinates
- 55.9938, -3.41366
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Pier is a servicing pier for the Royal Navy, built around 1917 and significantly repaired in 1940. It features six spans supported by girder trusses positioned between open-framed reinforced concrete piers. The pier has a timber deck with a railway track running down the center.
Local climate
West Pier receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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