Eastern Breakwater, Granton Harbour, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1989. Breakwater.

Eastern Breakwater, Granton Harbour, Edinburgh

WRENN ID: silver-landing-bramble
Grade: B
Local Planning Authority: City of Edinburgh
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 28 November 1989
Type: Breakwater
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

1853-63. L-plan breakwater; 3170ft long. Battered rubble sides capped by large ashlar kerb blocks; interlocked rubble surface. Concrete steps down to E side. Remains of timber jetty at N tip. World War II concrete lookout post at N tip: flat roof; door to SE and viewing/gun embrasure to seaward approaches; 2 rectangular concrete pillboxes at intervals along W (harbour) side; flat-roofed and supported on stilts over sloping embankment wall; 1 and 2 entrances and gun embrasures respectively.

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