29, 31, 33, 35 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 block. 1 related planning application.
29, 31, 33, 35 Leith Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- second-tin-twilight
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Tenement block
- Address
- 29, 31, 33, 35 Leith Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3AT
- OS grid reference
- NT 259 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95406, -3.18754
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
29, 31, 33, 35 Leith Street is a late 18th century tenement block that stands five storeys tall with an attic. The building features a near-symmetrical principal elevation with four bays facing Leith Street. It is constructed from droved ashlar with polished cills and mullions, while the rear is made of coursed rubble. The ground floor has modern shopfronts, and all upper floors are accented with cill bands, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. The windows are regularly spaced, with tripartite windows in the outer left bay on the upper floors.
On the northwest elevation facing Leith Street, there is a timber-panelled door with a six-pane fanlight set within a segmental-arched opening, and the surrounding stonework is painted. In the center and to the right, there are two modern shopfronts, each featuring deeply set-back central doorways flanked by windows. The roof is adorned with two piend-roofed dormers.
The southeast elevation is eight storeys high and has three bays, with a narrow canted section on the left. This elevation also displays predominantly regular fenestration with dressed margins.
The east elevation is mostly hidden by the adjoining No 37, but above the roof level of No 37, there is a rendered gable on the left with one window, and to the right, a coursed rubble curved section with one window.
In terms of glazing, the ground floor features plate glass, while the upper floors predominantly have 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with 4-pane glazing in the flanking lights of the tripartite windows. The dormers are finished with grey slate fascias, haffits, and roofs. The pitched roof is also covered in grey slate, with stone skews and skewputts. There is a cement rendered gablehead stack with circular cans on the east gable.
Local climate
29, 31, 33, 35 Leith 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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