306 Leith Walk, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Tenement.
306 Leith Walk, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- eastward-gable-coral
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 306 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 5BU
- OS grid reference
- NT 266 753
- Coordinates
- 55.96519, -3.17693
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
306 Leith Walk is an early 19th-century, three-storey, four-bay tenement. It features a cream sandstone façade with stugged ashlar at the front and coursed rubble at the rear.
The front elevation has a consoled cornice above the doorway located in the bay to the left of centre, with single windows in the remaining bays. There are two large rectangular dormers with piended roofs and replacement windows.
The rear elevation includes a full-height bowed bay with tripartite windows on each floor to the right, while the left side has single windows. There is a central wallhead stack and two piended dormers.
The building has timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, including 12-pane windows at the rear. The roof is covered in black slate with lead flashings, featuring a wallhead stack, a broad mutual ashlar stack to the left, and a rendered replacement stack to the right.
The interior was not seen in 1993. The front boundary is marked by a low rubble wall with saddleback coping and later railings.
Local climate
306 Leith Walk, 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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