1, 3, 5, 7 Pitt Street, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
1, 3, 5, 7 Pitt Street, Leith, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- under-pavement-nettle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1994
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 1, 3, 5, 7 Pitt Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 4BX
- OS grid reference
- NT 259 762
- Coordinates
- 55.9732, -3.18803
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1, 3, 5, and 7 Pitt Street in Leith, Edinburgh, is an early 19th-century, three-storey and basement, five-bay classical corner tenement. The building is constructed from cream sandstone, featuring rusticated stonework at the ground level, droved stone on the basement and upper floors, and polished dressings. It has a base course, a band course above the rustication, a cill course at the first floor, and a cornice with a blocking course. The windows are regularly spaced and include rectangular sunburst fanlights.
On the south elevation facing Pitt Street, there are steps leading to a panelled tenement door at the centre, with a flush-panelled main door located in the right bay. The west elevation facing Newhaven Road has four bays, with the right bays of the upper floors featuring blind windows. A shouldered wallhead stack is positioned on the raised parapet at the centre.
The rear elevation is constructed of rubble. The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass in the basement and ground floors, 12-pane windows on the first floor, and 4-pane windows on the second floor. The roof is piended and covered with grey slates, featuring coped rendered stacks.
Additionally, there are cast-iron spearhead railings on a saddleback ashlar base leading to the steps and basement area.
Local climate
1, 3, 5, 7 Pitt 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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