43 Portland Street, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. 2 related planning applications.
43 Portland Street, Leith, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- white-cupola-smoke
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1994
- Address
- 43 Portland Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 4AZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 263 766
- Coordinates
- 55.97705, -3.18251
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
41 Portobello Street in Leith, Edinburgh, dates from around 1835 and 1860. It is a mirrored pair of two-storey and attic houses built on a raised basement, featuring three bays. The houses are constructed of cream ashlar sandstone, with No 41 painted, and have polished dressings. There is a band course above the basement, a cill course at the first floor, and a cornice with a blocking course. The ground floor has moulded architraves, and the windows are arranged regularly.
The outer bays have deep-set panelled doors with rectangular fanlights in corniced doorways. There is a single window in the basements. No 43 features a pair of piend-roofed canted dormers, while No 41 has skylights. The windows are timber sash and case, with No 41 having four panes and No 43 featuring plate glass. The roofs are covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks and ashlar coped skews.
The property includes low rubble front and dividing walls topped with saddleback ashlar coping, as well as cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lys heads leading to the steps and basement area.
Local climate
43 Portland 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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