4-5 Lamb's Court, Newhaven, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 October 1996. Commercial block.
4-5 Lamb's Court, Newhaven, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- waiting-gallery-wren
- 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
- Commercial block
- OS grid reference
- NT 255 770
- Coordinates
- 55.98044, -3.19539
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4-5 Lamb's Court in Newhaven, Edinburgh, is a building dating from the mid to later 18th century, which was recast and converted by Ian Lindsay & Partners around 1970. It is a 2-storey, 6-bay asymmetrical block that forms the southern boundary of the court, with its rear elevation facing Main Street. The exterior is harled and limewashed, featuring raised and painted concrete surrounds around the openings. There are exterior stairs with timber railings leading to the first floor.
On the north elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a timber boarded door located in the penultimate bay to the right (No 4), with a storage door beneath the stairs. The first floor has single windows in the bays to the left and in the penultimate bay to the right, while the ground floor features a single window in the outer right bay. Stairs leading to the first floor entry (No 5) are aligned above No 4 and include a timber boarded door flanked by single windows. The remaining bays to the left also contain single windows.
The south elevation, facing Main Street, is a 2-storey, 3-bay structure with a regular arrangement of windows on both floors across all bays. The building features 12-pane timber sash and case windows on both elevations. The roof is covered with grey slate and has precast concrete skews. Harled apex stacks are located at the east and west ends, topped with precast concrete copes and circular cans.
Local climate
4-5 Lamb's Court, 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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