26 West Harbour Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1985. Warehouse.

26 West Harbour Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
night-sill-mist
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 February 1985
Type
Warehouse
Address
26 West Harbour Road, Edinburgh, EH5 1PN
OS grid reference
NT 233 772
Coordinates
55.98204, -3.22954
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

26 West Harbour Road is a warehouse built around 1870, featuring two storeys and eleven bays in a symmetrical layout. The structure is made of red brick with contrasting yellow brick dressings, stone sills on the windows, and a projecting brick eaves course.

On the north elevation, the central segmental-arched loading bay is flanked by five bays. There is a two-leaf boarded timber door leading to the first floor and a replacement glazed door with a glazed surround at the ground floor. A cast-iron hoist with a lion's head mask is located at the apex. The ground floor has alternating windows and doors, with doors in the second, fourth, sixth, eighth, and tenth bays, primarily featuring two-leaf panelled timber doors with rectangular fanlights.

The south elevation is largely blank, with two likely inserted windows at the centre of the first floor and single and two-storey lean-tos on the right side.

The west elevation has an entrance on the left side of the ground floor and a window on the right, with a projecting timber boxed structure above.

The east elevation features a single window on the right side on each floor.

The roof is a grey slate piended style, with three tall wallhead stacks along the south side, and one stack each on the east and west elevations. All stacks are made of polychromatic brickwork with oversailing brick cornices and round cans.

The interior was not inspected in 1997.

Local climate

26 West Harbour Road, 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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