Leith Victoria Boxing Club, 28 Academy Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1995. Sports club.

Leith Victoria Boxing Club, 28 Academy Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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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
Sports club
OS grid reference
NT 271 759
Coordinates
55.97074, -3.16955
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Leith Victoria Boxing Club, located at 28 Academy Street in Edinburgh, was built after 1876 and is a single-storey building with a curved corner design featuring classical details. The exterior is made of cream sandstone, with tooled ashlar and polished dressings on the main facades, while the rear is constructed from coursed rubble. Notable architectural features include a base course, a cill course, a moulded band course above the windows, an eaves cornice with a blocking course, and shouldered and lugged architraved windows that are adorned with ornamental cast-iron window guards or grilles. The building also has rusticated quoins.

On the northwest elevation facing Academy Street, there is a three-bay façade with a slightly recessed curved corner bay and rusticated quoins on the outer left. The outer right features an architraved doorway with a bracketed cornice, a two-leaf panelled door, and a segmental-arched plate glass fanlight. There are single windows in the centre and corner bay.

The northeast elevation, facing St Andrew Place, also has a three-bay design with a curved corner bay and single windows, matching the detailing of the northwest elevation.

The southwest elevation includes a large flat-roofed harled extension at the rear.

The windows are timber sash and case style, with six-pane top sashes and infilled lower sashes. The roof is piended and curved, covered with slate and fitted with metal flashings.

The interior was not seen during the inspection in 1993.

Local climate

Leith Victoria Boxing Club, 28 Academy Street, 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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