6 Wester Close, Newhaven, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 October 1996. Terraced house.

6 Wester Close, Newhaven, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
first-wall-ash
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 October 1996
Type
Terraced house
Address
6 Wester Close, Newhaven, Edinburgh, EH6 4LT
OS grid reference
NT 255 770
Coordinates
55.98054, -3.19529
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

6 Wester Close is a mid to later 18th century building that was recast and converted by Ian Lindsay & Partners around 1970. It is a two-storey, four-bay block in a vernacular style, forming part of a terrace. The building has a rectangular plan and a symmetrical arrangement. The exterior is harled and limewashed, with raised and painted concrete surrounds to the openings. There is an exterior stair with timber railings leading to the first floor, and the entries feature two-leaf timber boarded doors.

On the west (entrance) elevation, there are two timber doors on the ground floor located in the central bay, which is set within a stair recess. There is also a storage door facing north beneath the stair. The stairs lead to the first floor entry (No. 6), which is aligned above. Single windows are present on both floors in the outer left and right bays.

The east elevation, facing Lamb's Court, is regularly fenestrated on all floors. Both elevations feature 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is machine-made red pantiled with a grey slate easing course and raised skews. There is a harled apex stack to the north, topped with a precast concrete cope and circular cans.

Local climate

6 Wester Close, Newhaven, 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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