18 Union Place, Leith Walk, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 June 1966. Tenement.
18 Union Place, Leith Walk, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lost-niche-tarn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1966
- Type
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NT 260 744
- Coordinates
- 55.95731, -3.18596
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
18 Union Place is a terraced tenement building located in Leith Walk, Edinburgh, designed by Robert Burn and planned in 1800. It is a four-storey structure with an attic and features six bays. The building is constructed from sandstone ashlar and includes a base course, a cill band at the first floor, and projecting cills at the second and third floors.
The east elevation has a late 19th-century shopfront on the left side at ground level, which includes a recessed entrance with a timber door and fanlight. To the right of the entrance, there is a panelled door leading to the stairwell and another shop with a door. The upper floors have regular fenestration, with a bay window to the left of centre that is blinded for symmetry.
The windows feature 12-pane timber sash and case glazing, and the roof is covered with grey slates. There is a prominent ashlar mutual ridge stack with terracotta cans, along with three piended slate-hung dormers. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
18 Union Place, 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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