48 Timber Bush, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1989. Workshop, warehouse. 1 related planning application.
48 Timber Bush, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- long-marble-wagtail
- 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
- Workshop, warehouse
- Address
- 48 Timber Bush, Edinburgh, EH6 6QH
- OS grid reference
- NT 272 765
- Coordinates
- 55.97623, -3.16808
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
48 Timber Bush is an early 19th-century, two-storey workshop or warehouse that forms part of a courtyard enclosed by the neighbouring tenement buildings at Nos 32-36 Bernard Street, which are listed separately. The structure is made of cream sandstone, featuring coursed and squared rubble with stugged dressings on the front and southwest elevation, while the northeast side is constructed from rubble.
The southeast elevation has a gabled design with three bays, featuring a central door flanked by single windows that were added in 1902. There is a crude canopied ashlar panel at the gablehead and a stone, depressed carriage arch that connects the tenement to the setted courtyard on the left.
The northeast elevation has irregular openings, some of which have been altered, and an off-centre doorway to the left. The southwest elevation features a broad depressed-arched opening to the right, along with irregular openings that have been significantly altered.
The building has plate glass timber sash and case windows, as well as modern multi-pane timber casements. The roof is covered with slate and has a red crested tile ridge, along with Velux rooflights.
Local climate
48 Timber Bush, 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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