Trinity House, Leith

PricingHalf price in your first year of English Heritage membership, then freeEH memberHalf, then freeNon-member£7.50

EH members: half price, then freeInfo

Half price, then free, for English Heritage members

This place is cared for by Historic Environment Scotland. First-year English Heritage members get 50% off the ticket price; members who have renewed get in free. Bring your valid membership card, and any pre-booked tickets, to ensure entry.

Pre-booking is recommended at Edinburgh Castle, Skara Brae, Stirling Castle, Blackness Castle, Urquhart Castle, Doune Castle and Maeshowe. Bookings are limited to six people per membership.
Bring the card itself: joint and family memberships admit the named holders only.
Historic Scotland does not offer reciprocal admission to National Trust properties, and a National Trust card is not accepted here.

More information

Entry

Non-member prices

Adult (aged 16 to 64)£7.50

Child (aged 7 to 15)£4.50

Concession (aged 65 and over)£6.00

Pricing details

Online price; all visits must be booked online in advance, so English Heritage members book the partner ticket online. EH6 residents get 10% off with code EH610 and proof of address. One undated price table; recheck in spring 2027. Children under 7 free but need a ticket; up to two carers free per transaction; Young Scot card holders pay £1 online. Explorer Pass accepted in summer. Special events are priced separately. Family tickets are mentioned but not priced. English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card; bookings capped at six people per membership. Historic Scotland members free.

Price on Historic Scotland's page; the webstore sold the child ticket at £3.50 on 18 October 2026. Under-7s free with a ticket. English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card; bookings capped at six people per membership. Historic Scotland members free.

Online price. English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card; bookings capped at six people per membership. Historic Scotland members free.

ParkingFree parkingFree for all visitors

No charge for anyone.

Parking details

Historic Scotland says Trinity House has no visitor car park; the car park for users of the Kirkgate Shopping Centre, behind the house, is level tarmac with three accessible bays, and free parking there is limited to 90 minutes, after which a charge applies (the charge is not published). A one-hour tour fits within the free period.

Driving pin: the Kirkgate Shopping Centre car park off St Anthony Place, 31 m from HES's pin; Kirkgate itself is pedestrianised. Trinity House is a short walk from the foot of Leith Walk and well served by buses, with the nearest tram stop at Foot of the Walk.

About

Trinity House in Leith was for almost 200 years the headquarters of the Incorporation of Mariners and Shipmasters of the Port of Leith, a charity that cared for injured and retired seafarers and their families. Its origins go back to 1380, when it won the right to levy a duty on goods landed at Leith to pay for welfare, schooling and maritime training. The present Georgian building, designed by Thomas Brown and completed in 1816, stands on the site of an earlier Trinity House and hospital, and beneath it 16th-century vaults once held a school for young mariners. Inside are chairs by the Edinburgh cabinetmaker William Trotter and paintings of Leith as a busy port, while the upstairs Convening Room, with its maritime plasterwork, displays navigational instruments, ship models, whaling harpoons, narwhal tusks, portraits by Raeburn and a great painting of Vasco da Gama meeting the spirit of the storm. Visits are by booked guided tour, and reviewers single out the guides' storytelling.

Check today’s timesSee all times

Trinity House, LeithClosed today; regular tours resume Friday 2 April 2027 (Fridays 11:00 and 13:00); winter special events on selected dates

Opening times may change at short notice.

1 April to 30 September: Fridays only, by guided tour at 11am and 1pm, each lasting an hour; 1 October to 31 March: closed except for special events. All visits must be booked online in advance. Winter events listed on 18 October 2026: Maritime Leith's Black History tours on selected dates until Friday 23 October (11am to 2pm, ages 12 and over), Halloween Tales on 26 and 27 October (fully booked), a free Traditional Christmas drop-in on Friday 11 December (12 noon to 4pm), and twilight tours on 18 January, 15 February and 8 March 2027; event tickets are priced separately (£4.50 to £7.50).

The main entrance is up three wide stone steps; a ramped side entrance (1 in 10) currently has problems for electric wheelchairs, so wheelchair users should email trinityhouse@hes.scot first. The ground floor, with the Master's Room, is level; the vaults' audio-visual presentation is down 9 stone steps with a handrail, and the first-floor collection up a carpeted stair of 22 even steps, with a guide for those who cannot climb. Toilets and baby changing on site; the nearest adapted toilet is at Taylor Gardens, half a mile away (RADAR key). No cafe or shop. No dogs except assistance dogs.

Photo: The Georgian front of Trinity House on Kirkgate, Leith, with its columned porch, pediment and iron gates. Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_House,_Kirkgate_Leith.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.