Leith Fort Housing

In total there are a total of 357 houses in twenty five house-types built inside and retaining the guard houses and walls of an 18^th century building by James Craig.

The scheme comprises of one and two storey courtyard houses, two seven-storey and two 21-storey buildings with a podium building between.

The open area at the south end of the site is occupied by the seven-storey buildings. These provide a link in scale with the surrounding tenements.

On the ground floor of the twenty-one storey buildings are shops, a water-pumping room, switch-rooms, an electrical sub-station and garages. On the first floor, at podium level, are the lift waiting halls and launderettes.

The 19 storeys of houses are made up of interlocking three-storey units with four flats at the middle access level, and access to two marionettes above and two below.

The high-rise buildings were constructed insitu in concrete with precast concrete cladding applied without the use of scaffolding.