308 Leith Walk, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Townhouse.
308 Leith Walk, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- swift-brass-cobweb
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Townhouse
- Address
- 308 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 5BU
- OS grid reference
- NT 266 753
- Coordinates
- 55.96514, -3.17697
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
308 Leith Walk is an early 19th-century, three-storey and attic, two-bay terraced town house. It features a later shopfront in what was once a garden area, accessible through a pend with a rear entrance doorway. The front is finished in painted stugged ashlar, while the rear is constructed from coursed rubble. The windows are set in slightly recessed panels.
On the front elevation, there is a projecting flat-roofed modern shopfront at the ground floor. The first floor has pedimented tripartite windows with later slender cast-iron columnar mullions, and the second floor also features tripartite windows with ashlar mullions. There are two rectangular bipartite dormers with glazed returns and piended roofs.
The rear elevation includes a plain doorway at the base of a central semi-circular stairwell that breaks the eaves, topped with a half-conical roof, along with single windows. The building has multi-pane timber sash and case windows, except for the ground floor windows on the front elevation, which have plate glass glazing, with the left window on the first floor featuring lying panes. The roof is covered with black slate and lead flashings, and there are broad mutual stacks.
The interior was not seen in 1993.
Local climate
308 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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