87 Portland Street, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
87 Portland Street, Leith, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- fallen-bastion-elm
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1994
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 87 Portland Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 4AY
- OS grid reference
- NT 262 765
- Coordinates
- 55.9761, -3.18405
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
87 Portland Street in Leith, Edinburgh, is a late 19th-century cottage that may have been designed by T Duncan Rhind. This single-storey and attic building features a symmetrical three-bay layout with Queen Anne architectural details. The cottage is constructed of red brick and has a central door framed by a pedimented timber porch, supported by squat square columns that rest on red sandstone ashlar piers.
The cottage is topped with a pair of exaggerated segmental-headed, leaded, barrel-roofed dormers. The south gable is blank, while there is a window on the north side. At ground level, there are bipartite timber sash and case windows, and the dormers feature tripartite casements. The roof is covered with grey slates and includes terracotta ridge tiles, along with brick skews and stacks.
The walls are complemented by ashlar coped brick flanking walls, low rubble front walls with saddleback ashlar coping, and modern cast-iron railings and a gate.
Local climate
87 Portland 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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