Waterson's Printing Works, Warriston Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 March 1999. Printing works.
Waterson's Printing Works, Warriston Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- pale-pavement-moth
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1999
- Type
- Printing works
- OS grid reference
- NT 253 754
- Coordinates
- 55.96628, -3.1971
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Waterson's Printing Works, located on Warriston Road in Edinburgh, was designed by John Breingan in 1902. This three-storey building has a rectangular plan measuring 14 by 4 bays and features Renaissance detailing. It is constructed from red sandstone ashlar, with brick used on the rear. The design includes a base course, a slightly advanced ground floor, a cornice, and a parapet adorned with round-headed pierced panels that divide the bays. The windows have timber mullions and transoms.
On the northwest (principal) elevation, the entrance is located in the first bay and features a tall blind fanlight above it. There is a recessed goods entrance in the tenth bay, a round-arched keystoned window to the outer right, and three-light windows in the remaining bays, with regular fenestration above.
The northeast (Logie Green Road) elevation showcases round-arched keystoned bays at the ground level, with two narrow windows on each floor at the bowed corner bay. The central doorpiece is fluted-Ionic, with pilasters and a dentil cornice, and has carved spandrels that read 'INSt 1752, AEDt 1902'. Flanking windows include stone-mullioned bipartites to the left and tripartites to the right. The upper floors have regular fenestration, with two-light windows to the left and three-light windows to the right. There is also a two-storey, 18-bay addition to the right, built in 1948, featuring windows at the ground and regular fenestration above.
The southwest (side) elevation has bipartites on each floor at the bowed corner bay, a two-light window in the second bay at ground level, and a single-storey modern garage extension to the left. The upper floors maintain regular fenestration with three-light windows to the left.
The southeast (rear) elevation has seen extensive additions and alterations. The interior was not seen in 1998, but it features fixed timber windows with tilt and turn top-lights and multi-pane glazing.
Local climate
Waterson's Printing Works, Warriston Road, 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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