8 Seafield Road, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Terraced houses.
8 Seafield Road, Leith, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- dusted-quartz-amber
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Terraced houses
- OS grid reference
- NT 282 759
- Coordinates
- 55.9711, -3.15107
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 Seafield Road in Leith, Edinburgh, is a two-storey, nine-bay classical terraced pair built in 1830. The bays are arranged in a 2-1-3-1-2 pattern, with the three central bays slightly advanced and pedimented, while the outer pairs are lower and also advanced. The building is constructed from polished ashlar sandstone, featuring a base course and a cill course for the first-floor windows, which are bracketted above the central five bays.
On the northeast (principal) elevation, the entrance doors are located in the third and seventh bays, each topped with narrow rectangular plate glass fanlights and a bracketted cornice. The central bay has blind windows, and the first-floor windows in the outer paired bays break the eaves beneath the pediment. The southwest elevation has not been seen since 1995.
The roof is a grey slate piended design, raised at the central bays, with ashlar coped wallhead stacks. The property also features cast-iron railings along the street.
Local climate
8 Seafield Road, Leith, 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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