9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 Pitt Street, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.

9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 Pitt Street, Leith, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
scarred-chapel-khaki
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1994
Type
Tenement
Address
9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 Pitt Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 4BX
OS grid reference
NT 259 762
Coordinates
55.97323, -3.18781
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

9, 11, 13, 15, 17, and 19 Pitt Street is a classical tenement building dating from around 1830. It is three stories tall with a basement and features a symmetrical nine-bay design, housing two main door flats. The exterior is made of cleaned cream sandstone, with rustication at the ground floor and a droved finish on the basement and upper floors, complemented by polished dressings. Architectural details include a base course, a band course above the rustication, a cill course at the first floor, and a cornice with a blocking course. The fenestration is regular, featuring rectangular sunburst fanlights, with steps that oversail the basement recess leading to panelled doors. The doors are deep-set.

On the south elevation facing Pitt Street, the central tenement door is flanked by main doors at the third and seventh bays, with blind windows above on each floor. The east elevation facing Trafalgar Lane has a two-bay rubble gable that is three stories high, with all windows except the bottom right being blind. There are a pair of apex stacks, which have been raised later, with ashlar skews.

The rear elevation is a six-bay structure made of rubble. The windows are primarily 12-pane timber sash and case, with some replaced by plate glass and tilt-and-swing designs. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped rendered stacks on ashlar bases and ashlar coped skews.

The property features cast-iron spearhead railings on a saddleback ashlar base leading to the steps and basement area. There is also a cast-iron cradle-headed oil lamp standard, although the glass shade is missing, located to the left.

Local climate

9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 Pitt 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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