Bonded Warehouse, 3-5 Mithcell Street, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1995. Warehouse.
Bonded Warehouse, 3-5 Mithcell Street, Leith, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- over-bastion-jet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1995
- Type
- Warehouse
- OS grid reference
- NT 272 763
- Coordinates
- 55.9745, -3.16657
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bonded Warehouse, located at 3-5 Mitchell Street in Leith, Edinburgh, was rebuilt by Peter L Henderson in 1897, incorporating an earlier three-storey warehouse. This imposing five-storey, eight-bay warehouse features a square plan and has a modern harled addition at the rear. The exterior is made of cream sandstone, squared and snecked rubble, with a stugged finish to the front and droved dressings. It includes a base course, a band course above the first floor, and stop-chamfered reveals for the ground floor openings on the front elevation.
On the southwest (front) elevation, there are pend openings to the outer right and the centre bay, with boarded timber doors and cast-iron palstones in the centre, along with setted pends. There are doorways to the left of each pend opening, with the left one being a later alteration, and single windows in the remaining bays, with single windows above.
The northwest elevation is eight bays wide with four symmetrical gables. The band course continues until the fourth bay, which shows remains of the earlier building. Each bay has single windows, some of which are blocked, and there is an iron escape stair attached to the outer left gable.
The southeast elevation mirrors the northwest with an apex stack on the outer right gable and a two-storey building abutting it. The windows are barred, fixed timber with four panes, and some have cast-iron lintels. The roof is slate with an apex stack.
Inside, the warehouse features steel beams and columns.
Local climate
Bonded Warehouse, 3-5 Mithcell 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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