59 Timber Bush, 58, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1989. Warehouse. 3 related planning applications.
59 Timber Bush, 58, Leith, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-chamber-holly
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1989
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- 59 Timber Bush, 58, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 6QH
- OS grid reference
- NT 271 765
- Coordinates
- 55.97645, -3.16902
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This early 19th-century building is a four-storey, three-bay gabled warehouse that was originally three storeys high and likely heightened in the later 19th century. It has been converted into offices. The exterior features cream sandstone with coursed and squared rubble, along with coursed rubble on the rear and side, which has droved dressings. The rear and side have been heightened with red brick, while the front retains sandstone rubble.
On the northeast (front) elevation, the gabled facade includes large rectangular openings that are now glazed, with hoist doors positioned off-centre above. There is a loading and pulley mechanism for the third-floor door, along with modern hinged loading platforms. A single window is located at the first floor to the right, and there are single windows in the right bay, which have been enlarged at the third floor.
The southwest (rear) elevation features off-centre loading doors to the right, accompanied by modern hinged loading platforms. The hoist beam opening has been blocked. There is a single door at the second floor to the right and single windows in the left bay.
The northwest elevation has a single window at the ground floor in the centre, with single windows in the second and third floors across the three centre bays. The building has modern small-pane timber casement windows and a slate roof.
The interior was not seen in 1993.
Local climate
59 Timber Bush, 58, Leith, Edinburgh 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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