Warehouse, 54 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. 1 related planning application.

Warehouse, 54 Timber Bush, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
riven-terrace-soot
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
Address
Warehouse, 54 Timber Bush, Edinburgh, EH6 6QH
OS grid reference
NT 271 765
Coordinates
55.97638, -3.16865
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building consists of a pair of converted warehouses located at 55 and 57 Timber Bush in Edinburgh, dating from the early to mid 19th century, with the eastern range possibly being slightly older. The warehouses are five stories tall and symmetrical, featuring cream sandstone on the front and coursed and squared rubble, with coursed rubble to the rear, accented by droved dressings.

On the northeast (front) elevation, the eastern range has a segmental-arched pend on the outer left with rounded edges on the jambs, and a larger segmental-arched opening in the center bay. The remaining bays have single windows. The western range has wider openings at the ground floor, including a doorway in the center and another on the outer right. Above the ground floor, each warehouse features hoist doors in the center bays that break the eaves, along with hoists at the gable heads and modern hinged loading platforms. The fourth-floor windows are horizontally proportioned, while the other bays have single windows.

The southwest (rear) elevation shows a six-bay western range that is advanced by two bays, with two large openings (now glazed) in the center. The eastern range has a segmental-arched pend and an opening, with single windows above. There is a forestair in the re-entrant angle that rises to the outer right bay at the fourth floor, topped with a gabled dormerhead. The fourth-floor windows match those of the front elevation.

The warehouses have modern small-pane timber casement windows and a slate roof. The interior was not seen in 1993.

Local climate

Warehouse, 54 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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