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Latitude: 55.9871 / 55°59'13"N
Longitude: -3.2298 / 3°13'47"W
OS Eastings: 323371
OS Northings: 677802
OS Grid: NT233778
Mapcode National: GBR 8F1.89
Mapcode Global: WH6SD.CS73
Plus Code: 9C7RXQPC+R3
Entry Name: Western Breakwater And Esparto Wharf, Granton Harbour, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Granton Harbour, Western Breakwater Pier and Esparto Wharf
Listing Date: 28 November 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371027
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30219
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, Granton Harbour, Western Breakwater And Esparto Wharf
ID on this website: 200371027
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Forth
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Breakwater
1842-63 with some rebuilding. Dog-leg shaped breakwater/pier; 3100ft long. Coursed sandstone blocks with timber wharf along harbour-facing side. Battered base to pier surmounted by vertical walls; that to sea-facing side continued to form parapet; rebuilt in concrete along lower end; coursed stugged sandstone (inner face) with ridged coping towards end of pier. Sandstone kerb blocks partially intact to edge of platform; course of stugged projecting blocks immediately beneath support platform of wharf. Stone setts to parts of surface; otherwise concrete and asphalt (with remains of railway tracks).
Remains of single storey mid 20th century brick and concrete structure associated with shipment of coal or petroleum towards end of pier; counterbalanced equipment for discharging petrol and oil further along at edge of wharf. Large pipelines run most of length of pier along parapet wall.
Constructed for the Duke of Buccleuch as part of developments at Granton Harbour. A breakwater which also served as a pier with extensive wharfage. Formerly used for the shipment of coal, esparto grass and later petrol and oil. Lower section of pier altered by land reclamation between here and mid pier circa 1970.
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