13, 15 Leith Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Tenement. 1 related planning application.

13, 15 Leith Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
solemn-basalt-larch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1979
Type
Tenement
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Late 18th century. Wedge-plan, 4-storey and attic, 3-bay near-symmetrical tenement block. Droved ashlar with polished cills, mullions and cornice (coursed rubble to rear). Pilastraded timber shopfront at ground floor; cill band to all upper floors; mutuled eaves cornice; blocking course. Regularly fenestrated.

NW (LEITH STREET) ELEVATION: set-back modern door at centre, flanked left and right by large windows. At far left, timber-panelled door with square fanlight set in segmental-arched opening. Upper floors have blind window at centre flanked either side by tripartite window. 2 piend-roofed dormers to roof above.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: 4-bay, 7 storey elevation. Predominantly irregular fenestration with droved margins; some openings later enlargements or additions.

GLAZING etc: modern plate glass in timber frames to ground floor. Predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to upper floors and dormers; 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case to outer sections of tripartite windows. Grey slate roofs and haffits to dormers. Pitched roof; grey slate; stone skews and skewputts. Brick gablehead stack with circular cans to right, brick ridge stack to left.

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