Lodges, Leith Fort, North Fort Street, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Fort lodges and gateway. 1 related planning application.

Lodges, Leith Fort, North Fort Street, Leith, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
lesser-timber-amber
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Fort lodges and gateway
Address
Lodges, Leith Fort, North Fort Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 4HP
OS grid reference
NT 261 766
Coordinates
55.97683, -3.18549
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The lodges at Leith Fort, built around 1810, are a pair of matching two-storey Palladian structures made of cream sandstone. They are designed to flank the gateway that leads into the forecourt of the fort. The buildings feature rubble walls with droved ashlar on the front and polished ashlar dressings. Each lodge has two bays with open-pedimented end gables, accompanied by single-storey bays. The inner bays contain round-headed openings and pilasters, while the outer bays are simpler in design. The rear elevations have oculi.

The gateway is constructed from ashlar stone and includes a base course and coping. It features a pair of square piers and is flanked by round-headed pedestrian arches with impost stones. The outer posts of the arches are marked with Ordnance Survey benchmarks.

Additionally, there is a boundary wall made of ashlar-coped rubble that runs along North Fort Street and the northern side of the site.

Local climate

Lodges, Leith Fort, North Fort Street, 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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