36-40 Newhaven Road is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 February 1975. Former tannery, office. 6 related planning applications.

36-40 Newhaven Road

WRENN ID
kindled-wall-larch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 February 1975
Type
Former tannery, office
Address
36-40 Newhaven Road, EH6 5PY
OS grid reference
NT 260 758
Coordinates
55.97024, -3.18645
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

36-40 Newhaven Road is a three-storey, 14-bay former tannery built in 1879, now converted to office use. The building is constructed of squared and snecked rubble with smooth, raised margins and pebbledash render on the sides. It features a cill course, and the ground and first-floor windows have raised scalloped margins. The second-floor windows are set in rectangular panels, divided by ashlar jambs, and are adorned with decorative Moorish-style iron grilles. The windows are mainly plate glass timber sash and case. The entrance is off-centre, featuring a modern door with pall stones on either side.

The interior was last seen in 2015 and has been extensively altered for office accommodation, with no notable 19th-century features remaining. The single-storey section at the rear is excluded from the listing.

Local climate

36-40 Newhaven Road 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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