59 Constitution Street, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Block of flats. 3 related planning applications.

59 Constitution Street, Leith, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
plain-arch-bittern
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
Type
Block of flats
Address
59 Constitution Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 7AF
OS grid reference
NT 272 763
Coordinates
55.97424, -3.16722
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

59 Constitution Street is an early 19th-century, two-storey and basement block of flats located in Leith, Edinburgh. The building features a five-bay façade with a central pend. The front is made of cream sandstone with a polished ashlar finish, while the sides are coursed and squared, and the rear is constructed from coursed rubble with stugged dressings. There is a base course and a band course above the ground floor, along with broad angle pilasters.

The northeast (front) elevation has a rectangular pend at the center, which includes a small window on the mezzanine floor above and a single blinded window at the first floor. The plain doorways are accessed by oversailing steps, with storage cellars beneath. These doorways have panelled doors and rectangular three-pane fanlights. To the right, there are two doorways and a single window in the outer bay, with two single windows above at the first floor. To the left, there is a doorway and two windows in the outer bay, with two single windows above at the first floor. The basement features single windows, and the building has a raised parapet with moulded coping.

The southeast (rear) elevation has a segmental-arched pend at the center, with small windows and a taller stair window above. The outer bays have later doorways and single windows, with plain iron window guards on the right bays.

The southwest elevation features a lugged gable with a rendered apex stack. The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a black slate roof with lead flashings, and two coped and rendered apex stacks.

The interior was not seen in 1992 and is currently derelict. There is a low rubble wall at the front and some original cast-iron railings.

Local climate

59 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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