50 West Port, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 April 1986. Police and fire stations. 1 related planning application.
50 West Port, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- turning-flue-tide
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1986
- Type
- Police and fire stations
- Address
- 50 West Port, Edinburgh, EH1 2LD
- OS grid reference
- NT 251 732
- Coordinates
- 55.94628, -3.19936
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
50 West Port in Edinburgh is a four-storey and basement tenement block designed by Robert Morham in 1884, featuring Scots Baronial details. The building is constructed from squared and snecked bull-faced cream sandstone with polished dressings. It has a stepped string course between the ground and first floors, and a corbelled course between the second and third floors. The windows are set in chamfered surrounds.
The advanced central bay includes stone steps leading to a two-leaf timber boarded door, which is framed by a moulded stop-chamfered surround. Above this door is a bipartite window on the third floor, topped with a segmental pediment that displays the date 1884. The gable is crowstepped and features a corniced gablehead chimney. To the right, there is a shoulder-arched former entrance to a fire station, with a four-light stone-mullioned window above it. The outer bays have bipartite windows on the first, second, and third floors, with pedimented gableheads that break the eaves. The outer left side has a stone-mullioned and transomed canted window at the ground and basement levels.
The building has small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, and is topped with grey slates and corniced stacks with circular cans.
The boundary wall features spear-headed railings on a low ashlar-coped wall, with decorative finials marking the entrance.
Local climate
50 West Port, 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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