30-32 Kirk Street, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Tenement. 1 related planning application.

30-32 Kirk Street, Leith, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
last-pier-thistle
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
Type
Tenement
Address
30-32 Kirk Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 5EZ
OS grid reference
NT 268 759
Coordinates
55.97076, -3.17404
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

30-32 Kirk Street in Leith, Edinburgh, is a mid-19th century group of four, four-storey tenement buildings with cellars and attics. They feature a stripped classical style, constructed from cream sandstone with a stugged ashlar front, coursed rubble at the rear and southwest, and brick on the northeast elevation. The buildings have a base course, a band course above the doorways, and a band cill course at the first floor, along with chamfered arrises to the doorways.

On the southwest (front) elevation, each tenement has a common stair doorway to the right of the center, with main door flats to the left. The panelled doors are located at Nos 28, 34, and 36, while Nos 26 and 34 feature 3-pane fanlights. There are single windows in the remaining bays above. The end houses have narrow shouldered wallhead stacks at the center, and rectangular dormers with half-piended roofs.

The northeast (rear) elevation includes single windows and four-storey square brick projections for each tenement, with doorways on the flanks. The northeast elevation is brick-built, gabled with a broad ashlar apex stack, and has single windows at the third floor to the right. The southwest elevation is also gabled with an apex stack.

The buildings have timber sash and case windows, some with 12 panes, mostly featuring plate glass glazing, along with some modern replacement windows. The roofs are slate piend and platformed, with two wallhead and two apex stacks, and prominent tall mutual stacks rising from the wallhead. There are also downpipe recesses.

Inside, there is a stone stair at the rear with a plain timber handrail.

Local climate

30-32 Kirk 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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