Standing Building Recording

Date 11 April 2018

Event ID 1105054

Category Recording

Type Standing Building Recording

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1105054

NT 23810 77488 A historic building survey was undertaken, 11 April 2018, of the Old Gunpowder Store prior to development. The Gunpowder Store was constructed in c1840 and was one of four warehouses on the middle pier or ‘Mid Pier’ at Granton Harbour. The buildings around Mid Pier slowly expanded throughout the later 19th century and early 20th century, with land reclaimed in the 1970s and 1980s, and the former harbour buildings largely cleared. A few remnants of the lifting tackle and pulleys have survived to the upper loading doors and ground floor ceiling, although a new concrete floor and two large garage doors have been installed to the N and S walls of the ground floor. The former tramway to the S of the building has also survived, as has the original timber harbour (albeit in a dilapidated state) to the E of the building against the stepped harbour wall.

Archive: NRHE (intended)

Funder: Granton Holdings Ltd

Diana Sproat – AOC Archaeology Group

(Source: DES Vol 19)