Church Hall, St Mary Star Of The Sea, 106 Constitution Street, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1995. School.
Church Hall, St Mary Star Of The Sea, 106 Constitution Street, Leith, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- idle-flue-crow
- 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
- School
- OS grid reference
- NT 271 762
- Coordinates
- 55.97376, -3.16943
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Church Hall of St Mary Star of the Sea, located at 106 Constitution Street in Leith, Edinburgh, was built in 1903. This three-storey, flat-roofed building has a rectangular plan and features a roof playground at the rear. It is constructed from reddish-yellow brick with cream sandstone dressings. The long elevations are divided into bays by slender off-set buttresses that rise to gablet-capped dies, which serve as piers for the rooftop railings.
On the southeast elevation, there are eight bays, each with a large corniced window on every floor. The three bays on the left previously connected to another full-height building, which is now rendered and blank, featuring a lower two-storey lean-to extension accessed via a forestair.
The southwest elevation has five bays, with two advanced bays on the right that include secondary doorways at ground level with exposed iron lintels. There are single windows on the first and second floors, with the second-floor windows featuring herringbone brickwork aprons, blank concrete shields, and segmental-arched stylised hoodmoulds with finials above. The central and left bays mirror this design. To the outer left, there is a narrow four-stage stair bay with small paired two-tier windows separated by panels of herringbone brickwork, culminating in a cap-house. A smaller lean-to addition is located to the outer left, featuring a single window and a secondary door.
The northwest elevation mirrors the southeast elevation, except for a projecting four-storey blank bay on the outer right, which has small windows on the return and a smaller lean-to addition at ground level. To the outer right bay, there is a lower two-storey flat-roofed addition with narrow windows on the first and second floors on the return northeast.
The northeast elevation consists of three bays, with a blank centre bay that has a broad wallhead stack and single corniced windows in the outer bays. The building features large 12-pane timber casement cross windows, one wallhead stack, and plain cast-iron railings along the roof parapet. The interior was not seen in 1993.
Local climate
Church Hall, St Mary Star Of The Sea, 106 Constitution 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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