3 Links Gardens, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 2 related planning applications.

3 Links Gardens, Leith, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
silver-spindle-root
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
Address
3 Links Gardens, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 7JH
OS grid reference
NT 275 760
Coordinates
55.97218, -3.16235
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1-2 Links Gardens is a terrace of three early 19th century, three-storey houses with a basement and attic, along with a corner tenement at an oblique angle. The buildings are constructed from cream sandstone, featuring a polished ashlar ground floor, stugged ashlar above with polished dressings, and coursed and squared rubble at the rear. There is a band course above the basement, a rusticated ground floor, another band course above the ground floor, and a dentilled eaves cornice with a blocking course.

The southwest elevation facing Links Gardens has twelve bays, each with single windows (some blocked at the basement level). The doorways are accessed by steps, with Nos 2 and 4 featuring panelled doors and radial fanlights, while the doorway to the former No 1 has been converted into a window. No 4 has two canted dormers with piended roofs, along with modern box dormers.

The northwest elevation facing Salamander Place has four bays, with a common stair doorway on the outer left that features a consoled cornice, a replacement door, and a fanlight. There are single windows and a mansard extension above, with single windows in the remaining bays.

The northeast rear elevation has a gable constructed from squared and snecked rubble, with the gablehead raised into a mansard. There are single windows at the rear, some of which have been altered, and modern box dormers.

The windows are mostly timber sash and case, with 12-pane and plate glass glazing, although there are replacement windows at No 3 and at the rear. The roof is slate with metal flashings, and there are coped mutual stacks and skews.

The boundary walls consist of a low rubble wall with plain iron railings, and there are remains of a lamp standard at No 4.

Local climate

3 Links Gardens, 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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