Warehouse, 50, 51 Timber Bush, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1989. Warehouse. 3 related planning applications.

Warehouse, 50, 51 Timber Bush, Leith, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
dusk-beam-sepia
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 November 1989
Type
Warehouse
Address
Warehouse, 50, 51 Timber Bush, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 6QH
OS grid reference
NT 271 765
Coordinates
55.97626, -3.1685
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building is a warehouse located at 50-51 Timber Bush in Leith, Edinburgh, dating from the later 19th century. It is a four-storey, four-bay asymmetrically gabled structure that has been converted into offices. The exterior features cream sandstone, squared and snecked rubble with stugged dressings, and includes chamfered reveals for the pend, doorway, and loading doors.

On the northeast (front) elevation, there is a broad gabled facade facing the street. To the left of center, there is a segmental-arched pend, with segmental-arched loading doors on the first and second floors. The third floor has a loading door with a modern hinged loading platform and a boxed-in timber pulley at the gablehead. A doorway is located to the outer right, with single windows above and in the remaining bays.

The southeast elevation includes a recessed corner bay on the outer left, with single windows in the next bay and a Velux rooflight. The northwest elevation is blank, featuring coursed rubble on the lower part of the wall, which may have been heightened, along with Velux rooflights.

The building has modern small-pane timber casement windows and a slate roof, with an additional Velux rooflight. Inside, there are cast-iron columns and timber floor construction.

Local climate

Warehouse, 50, 51 Timber Bush, Leith, 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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