3-5 Portland Place, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
3-5 Portland Place, Leith, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tired-thatch-coral
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1994
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 3-5 Portland Place, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 6JZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 264 767
- Coordinates
- 55.97775, -3.18042
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
3-5 Portland Place is a classical tenement building constructed around 1821. It stands four storeys tall on a raised basement and features eight bays. The exterior is made of cleaned cream sandstone droved ashlar with polished dressings. The building has a base course, a rusticated ground floor with a band course above, a cill course at the third floor, and a cornice. The windows are regularly spaced, and the doors are flat-panelled.
The basement includes a door in the left bay, while the seven right bays are advanced and contain five two-bay shops, each with a window and a two-leaf panelled door. There is ashlar coping that supports spearhead railings, and a straight flight of steps on the left leads to the principal floor terrace. The principal floor features a tenement door in the fourth bay from the left, which has a three-pane rectangular fanlight and blind windows above. The main doors are located in the second bay (with a three-pane fanlight) and the sixth bay (with a sunburst fanlight).
The south gable end is harled and was formerly attached to the adjacent building. The rear elevation is constructed of rubble. The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, grey slate roofing, coped ashlar stacks, and ashlar coped skews.
Local climate
3-5 Portland Place, 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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