296 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.
296 Leith Walk, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lunar-bailey-soot
- 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
- 296 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 5BX
- OS grid reference
- NT 266 753
- Coordinates
- 55.96535, -3.17674
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
296 Leith Walk is an early 19th century, three-storey, five-bay tenement building. It features later shopfronts that project into what was once a garden area. The exterior is harled with raised margins.
On the front elevation, there are projecting flat-roofed shops at the ground floor, with single windows above on the first and second floors. The rear elevation has four bays, including a tall stair window to the left of the center and single windows in the remaining bays. The northeast elevation is gabled and has an apex stack.
The building has four-pane timber sash and case windows and a purple slate roof with lead flashings. There are two rendered brick apex stacks, which are mostly octagonal in shape. The interior was not seen in 1993.
Local climate
296 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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