80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90 Leith Walk, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1988. Tenement. 6 related planning applications.
80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90 Leith Walk, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-hall-snow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1988
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 5HB
- OS grid reference
- NT 268 757
- Coordinates
- 55.96926, -3.17333
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
80, 82, 84, 86, 88, and 90 Leith Walk is a later 19th-century tenement building that stands four stories tall and features five bays. The ground floor includes shops, with a full-height cast-iron-framed and glazed facade on three bays to the left. The structure is primarily constructed with coursed and squared cream sandstone on the front and side elevations, while the rear is made of brick and some rubble. Steel beams are encased in timber behind the glazed shopfront. A continuous cornice runs above the ground floor, supported by scrolled consoles, and there is an eaves cornice. The tenement features stop-chamfered reveals and ashlar mullions, while the glazed facade has windows divided by slender timber mullions and transoms set in basket-arched lights.
On the front elevation, the entrances for Nos 88 and 90 include a recessed doorway in the center, flanked by display windows with a central mullion. The floors above have moulded cill courses at the second and third floors, with broad bipartite windows in the center bay and tripartite windows in the outer bays. For Nos 80-86, the ground floor features basket-arched openings, with a common stair doorway in the center topped by a plate glass fanlight, a replacement shopfront to the right, and a display window to the left. All floors above these bays have bipartite windows, and awning fittings are present on all shop windows.
The rear elevation shows that Nos 80-86 are part rubble and part brick-built, featuring a semi-circular stairtower with a hoist and hoist opening on the flank. Nos 88-90 are recessed and brick-built, with bipartite windows and a large two-storey rendered extension topped with a piend roof.
The northeast elevation is three bays wide, gabled with a broad apex stack, and features single windows. It has a rounded corner above the ground floor, with decorative corniced and panelled skewstacks.
The building has timber sash and case windows, with plate glass glazing on the front and four-pane windows at the rear. The slate roof includes a metal ridge, apex, and skew stacks, as well as six small cast-iron skylights on the front. The interior was not seen in 1993.
Local climate
80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90 Leith Walk, 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 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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