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
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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