Pilot Boat Slipway, North Queensferry

The Pilot Boat Slipway in North Queensferry, designed by John Rennie between 1810 and 1813 with later improvements, consists of two piers. The West Battery Pier is a 98-meter long jetty, approximately 8 meters wide at its narrowest point, running north-south and bordered on the east by the rising ground of the northern cantilever of the Forth Bridge. It features coursed rubble masonry, setts, and large widely droved slabs along its western edge.

The East Battery Pier is 70 meters long and about 9 meters wide at its narrowest point. It is flanked on the north by dry land that extends eastward from the landward end of the pier and on the south by a short, narrow pier with a rounded eastern end. This jetty also has coursed, droved rubble masonry and setts, which are smaller than those on the West Pier, showing later track marks from the cradle used during the construction of the Forth Bridge. The marginal slabs are keyed with oblong blocks in pairs. The short pier is constructed with coursed, droved masonry blocks leading to the end, drystone rubble, and slabs keyed with single blocks. Setts extend over the ground approaching both the eastern and western piers.

Additionally, there is shoring consisting of a sloping coped wall that supports the ground under the northern cantilever, made of coursed dressed rubble. A raised open viewing area of irregular shape is located to the northwest of the cantilever, surrounded by flat-headed coped random rubble walls and straight modern railings to the southwest. This area features a central square-plan entrance pier with a square stepped capital and a commemorative plaque. Boundary walls made of long round coped random rubble extend along the shore from Battery Road to the northwest end of the West Battery Pier.