42-46 Leamington Terrace, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 January 1998. Tenement block. 4 related planning applications.
42-46 Leamington Terrace, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- still-spire-plum
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1998
- Type
- Tenement block
- Address
- 42-46 Leamington Terrace, Edinburgh, EH10 4JL
- OS grid reference
- NT 246 724
- Coordinates
- 55.93906, -3.20841
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
42-46 Leamington Terrace is a plain classical tenement block built in 1864. It is three stories high and has a rectangular plan with nine bays. There is a single-storey wing on the outer left that has a balustrade. The building is constructed of polished sandstone ashlar and features a base course, a cill course at the first floor, a cornice, and a blocking course. The windows have stop-chamfered, architraved surrounds.
On the northeast (entrance) elevation, there are two single windows at the ground level in the center, flanked by architraved doorpieces with fanlights. To the left and right, there are two single windows, and there is an architraved doorpiece with a single window in the single-storey wing on the outer left. The upper storeys have regular fenestration.
The windows are 6-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and has rendered coped stacks with circular cans.
The interior was not seen in 1997. The property has low, coped boundary walls along the street, with gates leading to the entrance pathways (excluding No 44) and sections of original railings.
Local climate
42-46 Leamington Terrace, 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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