6, 8, 10 Keir Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Tenement block.

6, 8, 10 Keir Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
woven-loft-gold
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 2001
Type
Tenement block
Address
6, 8, 10 Keir Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9EU
OS grid reference
NT 253 731
Coordinates
55.94568, -3.19664
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 6, 8, and 10 Keir Street in Edinburgh, dates from around 1832 and is a plain classical tenement block. It features a recessed bowed corner bay on the outer left, which leads to a spiral common stair. The exterior is made of cream ashlar, with the ground level channelled and the basement and upper floors lightly droved. There are dividing bands between the basement and ground floors, as well as between the ground and first floors, along with a cill course at the third floor and a narrow eaves course. The building has a regular arrangement of windows.

Access to the basement areas is via stone steps and platts, although these have been filled in at Nos 6 and 10. At No 2, there is a timber door set in a Doric pilastered and corniced doorpiece leading to the stair. No 8 has a timber door to the flats, while Nos 10 and 6 feature timber panelled doors with border-glazed fanlights.

The windows are 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case style, and the roof is covered with grey slates. The building has corniced stacks that are rendered and topped with circular cans. The boundary wall is low ashlar, topped with spear-headed cast-iron railings and features pine-cone finials on the basement gates.

Local climate

6, 8, 10 Keir Street, 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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