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
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1989
- Type
- Breakwater
- OS grid reference
- NT 241 776
- Coordinates
- 55.98609, -3.21767
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Eastern Breakwater at Granton Harbour in Edinburgh was constructed between 1853 and 1863. It is an L-plan breakwater that stretches 3,170 feet long. The structure features battered rubble sides topped with large ashlar kerb blocks and has an interlocked rubble surface. There are concrete steps leading down to the eastern side, and at the northern tip, remnants of a timber jetty can be found. Additionally, there is a World War II concrete lookout post at the northern tip, which has a flat roof, a door to the southeast, and a viewing/gun embrasure facing the seaward approaches. Along the western (harbour) side, there are two rectangular concrete pillboxes positioned at intervals. These pillboxes have flat roofs and are supported on stilts over a sloping embankment wall, featuring one and two entrances and gun embrasures, respectively.
Local climate
Eastern Breakwater, Granton Harbour, Edinburgh receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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