39, 39A Portland Street, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. House. 2 related planning applications.
39, 39A Portland Street, Leith, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- muffled-portal-pigeon
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- 39, 39A Portland Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 4BB
- OS grid reference
- NT 263 766
- Coordinates
- 55.97715, -3.18237
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
39 and 39A Portland Street in Leith, Edinburgh, is a house dating from around 1840. It is a three-storey building with an attic set on a raised basement and features a three-bay façade. The exterior is made of droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, and the basement is channelled and painted. The building has a base course and a modillioned cornice, with moulded architraves and cornices at the ground level. The windows are arranged in a regular pattern.
To the right, there is a straight flight of steps leading to a Roman Doric doorpiece that is pilastered and corniced, featuring a panelled door with a rectangular fanlight above it, and a basement door below. The roof includes a pair of piend-roofed tripartite dormers.
The building has a variety of timber windows, grey slate roofing, ashlar stacks, and ashlar coped skews. There are also obtrusive cast-iron downpipes on the front elevation.
In terms of the surrounding features, there is a low ashlar coped rubble wall at the front, with smooth rock-faced rustication on the side wall and steps. The property is complemented by cast-iron railings, some of which are spearheaded.
Local climate
39, 39A Portland Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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