18, 19, 20 Maritime Lane, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1995.

18, 19, 20 Maritime Lane, Leith, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
riven-forge-reed
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1995
OS grid reference
NT 272 763
Coordinates
55.97464, -3.16805
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

40-41 Maritime Street in Leith, Edinburgh, is a two-storey L-plan range of warehouses and workshops designed by A Hunter Crawford in 1891, which incorporates an earlier 19th-century building to the northeast. The structure features cream sandstone and coursed rubble on the Maritime Lane elevation, while the Maritime Street side has squared and snecked rubble with tooled ashlar dressings.

On the northwest elevation facing Maritime Street, the building has three bays. The central bay contains a segmental-arched pend opening, with a single window above on the first floor. To the right, there is a paired window at ground level and three single windows above. To the left, the arrangement is similar, with a doorway flanked by windows at ground level. A wallhead stack is located to the right of the center.

The northeast elevation along Maritime Lane consists of eleven bays and features a single-storey screen wall with three openings, an eaves course, and a blocking course on the outer left. The earlier range on the left has irregular altered openings, generally featuring smaller square openings on the first floor. The rebuilt range to the right has single windows, a rectangular pend at the junction with the earlier building, and a segmental-arched doorway to the right, along with a wallhead stack.

The courtyard elevation is constructed of brick with stone dressings on the later west block and includes a forestair to the left. There are single openings, a two-bay raised timber attic to the left, and a single-storey modern addition.

The building has small-pane timber sash and case windows and fixed casements, with some modern replacements. The later building has a piend slate roof and two wallhead stacks, while the earlier range has a corrugated iron roof.

The interior was not seen in 1993.

Local climate

18, 19, 20 Maritime Lane, 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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