26 Leith Walk, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Town house. 1 related planning application.
26 Leith Walk, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- strange-corridor-aspen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 26 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 5AA
- OS grid reference
- NT 269 758
- Coordinates
- 55.97018, -3.17267
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
26 Leith Walk is a four-storey, four-bay town house with a basement, built before 1804. It is part of a near terrace of five houses. The exterior is made of cream sandstone, dressed ashlar with polished dressings, while the rear features rubble with droved dressings. There is a band course above the basement, architraved windows with cornices at the ground floor, and a dentilled eaves cornice.
On the southwest (front) elevation, there is a pilastered and corniced doorway located in the bay to the right of the centre, featuring a rectangular plate glass fanlight and a two-leaf panelled door. The remaining bays and floors have single windows, and there are two rectangular tripartite piended dormers.
The northwest (rear) elevation includes tripartite windows in the centre bays of the ground and first floors, with single windows in the other bays. The windows are timber sash and case, mostly with 12-pane glazing, while some at the rear have 4-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate and has broad coped mutual stacks and skews.
The interior was not seen in 1993. The property also features a low rubble boundary wall with some original iron railings.
Local climate
26 Leith Walk, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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