Capstan is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 April 2007. Capstan.
Capstan
- WRENN ID
- winding-flagstone-sage
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 April 2007
- Type
- Capstan
- OS grid reference
- NT 121 786
- Coordinates
- 55.99307, -3.40929
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Capstan is a cylindrical cast-iron structure, dated 1917, made by Douglas & Grant Ltd of Kirkcaldy. It features concave sides and a slightly domed top, resting on a deep concrete base that houses the working mechanism. This base is covered by a large cast-iron plate. The maker's plate is cast into the top of the capstan, reading "DOUGLAS & GRANT LTD. ENGINEERS. KIRKCALDY. 1917."
Local climate
Capstan receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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