149, 149A Constitution Street, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 October 1989. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.
149, 149A Constitution Street, Leith, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- plain-hammer-finch
- 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
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 149, 149A Constitution Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 7AD
- OS grid reference
- NT 270 759
- Coordinates
- 55.97136, -3.16995
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
149 and 149A Constitution Street is an early 19th century, three-storey, three-bay tenement building located in Leith, Edinburgh. The structure features a later 19th century shopfront and is constructed of cream sandstone with droved ashlar and coursed rubble on the rear and side. It has a band base course.
On the northwest (front) elevation, there is a doorway with a replacement door and a rectangular plate glass fanlight to the outer left, with a single window flanking it and another window above. The later three-bay timber shopfront spans the centre and right bays, featuring plain moulded openings and a consoled dentilled cornice, with regular fenestration above. There are two rectangular dormers with piended roofs that have been re-glazed.
The southeast (rear) elevation was not visible in 1993. The left bay contains 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while the remaining windows are modern replacements. The building has a slate roof with a stone ridge and a rebuilt apex stack. The interior was not seen in 1992.
Local climate
149, 149A Constitution 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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