244, 246, 248, 250, 252 Leith Walk, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1995. Tenement. 4 related planning applications.
244, 246, 248, 250, 252 Leith Walk, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- woven-casement-sage
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1995
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 244, 246, 248, 250, 252 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 5EL
- OS grid reference
- NT 267 754
- Coordinates
- 55.9664, -3.17578
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
244, 246, 248, 250, and 252 Leith Walk in Edinburgh is a four-storey tenement building designed by William Constable in 1902. The building features a chamfered corner and shops on the ground floor. It is constructed of cream sandstone with an ashlar front and coursed rubble at the rear. Notable architectural details include a continuous dentilled cornice above the shopfronts, a cill course at the first and second floors, a cill band course at the third floor, and an eaves cornice.
On the southeast elevation facing Leith Walk, the building has seven bays, including the chamfered corner bay, which has a blocking course with a tablet on the outer left. The central doorway leads to a common stair and features a panelled door with a plate glass fanlight, flanked by shopfronts that have mostly been altered. The fenestration is regular, with bipartite windows in the fourth and seventh bays from the left. There are two wallhead stacks.
The southwest elevation, facing Orchardfield Lane, has two bays with windows in the left bay and a tall wallhead stack in the right bay and on the outer left. The northwest elevation at the rear also has chamfered corners, regular fenestration, and a central wallhead stack.
The building features timber sash and case windows, mostly with plate glass glazing at the front, although some windows have been replaced. The rear has four-pane windows. The roof is slate with five wallhead stacks and a mutual stack, and there is a moulded eaves gutter. The interior was not seen in 1993.
Local climate
244, 246, 248, 250, 252 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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