6 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.
6 Kirk Street, Leith, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- open-rubble-fen
- 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
- 6 Kirk Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 5EY
- OS grid reference
- NT 269 759
- Coordinates
- 55.9706, -3.1726
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
6 Kirk Street in Leith, Edinburgh, is a mid-19th century, two-storey, six-bay tenement. It features a later addition of a blocked shopfront. The building is constructed from cream sandstone, with coursed and squared rubble and stugged dressings.
On the southwest (front) elevation, there is a three-bay shopfront on the outer right, which is now blocked and has a barred window. Above this, there are two windows. To the left of the centre, there is a common stair doorway, and the second bay from the left has been converted into a door, with a window inserted to the right. The first floor has single windows.
The windows are timber sash and case, with some retaining 12 panes, while others have plate glass glazing. The roof is slate with a metal ridge and features a mutual gable stack to the northeast.
The interior was not seen in 1993.
Local climate
6 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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