143, 145, 147 Constitution Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 October 1989. 6 related planning applications.

143, 145, 147 Constitution Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
vacant-string-birch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 October 1989
Address
143, 145, 147 Constitution Street, Edinburgh, EH6 7AD
OS grid reference
NT 270 760
Coordinates
55.97147, -3.16975
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

141 Constitution Street in Edinburgh is possibly an early 19th-century building featuring three to four storeys and a basement. The front is made of cream sandstone with a droved ashlar finish, while the rear and sides are constructed from coursed rubble. The basement is also rubble, with a banded base course and a dentilled eaves cornice. The doorways, which are plain pilastered and corniced, have panelled doors and rectangular plate glass fanlights, with Nos 141 and 143 featuring border glazing. Nos 141-145 have been stone cleaned and partly refronted.

The northwest (front) elevation displays regular fenestration. No 141 has a four-bay design with a doorway to the right of the centre and blinded windows above. Nos 143 and 145 are also four-bay, with a doorway in the bay to the left of centre and a later door added in the outer left bay. Decorative cast-iron window guards are present on the left bays at the third floor. No 147 has a three-bay design with a central doorway and blinded windows above. Each tenement includes two rectangular tripartite dormers with piended roofs.

The southeast (rear) elevation features nepus gables. The windows are primarily timber sash and case, mostly with 12 panes, although some have plate glass glazing, and there are replacement windows on the first floor of No 147. The slate roof has lead flashings and tall coped mutual stacks that have been rebuilt. The interior was not seen in 1993.

Local climate

143, 145, 147 Constitution 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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