6 Links Gardens, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 3 related planning applications.

6 Links Gardens, Leith, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
swift-gargoyle-candle
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
Address
6 Links Gardens, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 7JH
OS grid reference
NT 275 760
Coordinates
55.97187, -3.16192
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

7 Links Gardens in Leith, Edinburgh, is a terrace of four paired classical houses built between 1801 and 1807. The buildings are three stories high, with a basement and attic, constructed from cream sandstone. The ground floor features polished ashlar, while the upper levels are made of stugged ashlar with polished dressings. The rear and sides are finished in coursed and squared rubble. A band course runs above the basement, and the ground floor is rusticated. The eaves cornice is dentilled with a blocking course.

The southwest elevation facing Links Gardens has 12 bays, consisting of two pairs of three-bay houses that mirror each other around the center. The doorways, accessed by steps, are located in the center bays and feature panelled doors (except for No 7) with plate glass fanlights above. The remaining bays have single windows. Nos 6, 8, and 9 have canted dormers, while No 7 boasts a full set of ornate iron balconies.

The southeast elevation facing Links Gardens Lane is gabled with an ashlar apex stack and has single windows. The northeast rear elevation also features single windows, with No 9 including a secondary door and a later forestair. This elevation has a tripartite window and a raised wallhead with a broad-shouldered wallhead stack to the left, as well as two altered tripartite dormers.

The windows throughout are timber sash and case, with plate glass glazing on the front and 12- and 4-pane configurations on the rear and sides. The roof is slate, featuring an apex and wallhead stack, mutual stacks, and rooflights. Recessed downpipes are present.

Inside, there is a fan-vaulted vestibule in Nos 6 and 7. The property is enclosed by a low rubble wall with iron railings, and No 7 has a decorative lamp bracket with a basket. To the left, there is a corniced ashlar pier and a coped wall.

Local climate

6 Links Gardens, 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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