Lighthouse, Middle Pier, 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. Lighthouse. 1 related planning application.

Lighthouse, Middle Pier, Granton Harbour, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
fossil-joist-bone
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
Lighthouse
OS grid reference
NT 238 776
Coordinates
55.98582, -3.22245
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The lighthouse at Middle Pier, Granton Harbour in Edinburgh was designed by J Hannay Thompson, the General Superintendent Engineer for Granton Harbour Company, in collaboration with the Yorkshire Hennebique Company in 1936. This leading light features a reinforced concrete pillar topped with a lantern cupola that has latticed glazing within a steel framework and a conical roof. A circular cantilevered platform with railings surrounds the base of the cupola, and access is provided via an attached ladder. At the base of the pillar, there is a door for access to electrical equipment, which is sheltered by a small cantilevered canopy.

Local climate

Lighthouse, Middle Pier, 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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