59-61 Inverleith Place, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Villa. 3 related planning applications.

59-61 Inverleith Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
dusk-soffit-acorn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1979
Type
Villa
Address
59-61 Inverleith Place, Edinburgh, EH3 5QD
OS grid reference
NT 243 754
Coordinates
55.96631, -3.21362
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

59-61 Inverleith Place is a large, two-storey early Renaissance villa built in 1894 by Dunn and Findlay. The building features snecked rubble with polished dressings. The western entrance front has two gables and a central balustraded link that contains the entrance bay. This bay includes a well-crafted doorpiece with a moulded architrave set in diamond panelled Corinthian pilasters inspired by Francois Ier. Above the entrance, there is a three-light window with a sculptured apron panel. To the left, there are four-light windows on the ground floor and three-light windows on the first floor, while to the right, a two-storey four-light canted bay is present. All windows are mullioned and transomed, and there is a fluted frieze cornice and a relieving arch over the left-hand first-floor window, along with finialled gables.

The south elevation features a two-window canted ingleneuk to the left, a large central chimney breast, and a tall stack. There are central bipartite windows and a gable to the right with two-light windows that have mullion and transom crosses. On the east side, there is a recessed one-window office wing with a conservatory at right angles. The north elevation has a chimney breast to the right and central bipartites in the east gable, along with a door and window in the set-back offices. The first-floor door to number 59 is located in the east elevation. The roof is green slated with a red tile crest, and there are corniced rubble stacks. The property is enclosed by a stepped rubble-built wall with coping, two tall iron lamp brackets, and wooden gates.

Local climate

59-61 Inverleith Place, 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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