91, 93 Portland Street, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. 3 related planning applications.

91, 93 Portland Street, Leith, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
white-pavement-willow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1994
Address
91, 93 Portland Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 4AY
OS grid reference
NT 262 765
Coordinates
55.976, -3.18399
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

30 North Fort Street in Leith, Edinburgh, dates from around 1840 and consists of three three-storey, four-bay tenements that adjoin a two-storey flatted terrace on a corner site with an obtuse angle. The building features stugged ashlar with ashlar dressings, a base course, and a cill course at the first floor. The fenestration is regular, with moulded architraves at the ground floor and doors that include rectangular fanlights, architraves, and cornices. There are basements present.

The North Fort Street elevation includes a two-storey and attic three-bay section with two steps leading to a deep-set door at the center, which has a five-oval-pane fanlight above it, along with a cornice and blocking course.

On the Portland Street elevation, the buildings numbered 95-105 have basements. They feature cornices above the ground floor windows and moulded architraves for the first floor windows, along with a band course above the first floor and a cornice. There are two pairs of four-bay blocks on the left, with tenement doors located in the outer bays and main doors in the penultimate inner bays. The left block (No 91) has blind windows in the left bay, while the right block (No 97) has an additional bay to the right. A slightly advanced three-bay block is situated to the right, with doors in the outer bays and a centre bay that has a curved shouldered wallhead stack. The right bay is two-storey and sweeps down from the left, featuring a blind window at the first floor.

The rear elevations are constructed of rubble. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass, although some have been replaced. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are rendered stacks and ashlar coped skews.

The walls and railings consist of low coursed stone front walls topped with ashlar saddleback coping, along with decorative cast- and wrought-iron fleur-de-lys railings for the front walls, steps, and basement areas, as well as plain iron railings.

Local climate

91, 93 Portland 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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