41 Leith Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979.

41 Leith Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
rough-grate-winter
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1979
Address
41 Leith Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3AT
OS grid reference
NT 259 741
Coordinates
55.9542, -3.18744
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

43 Leith Street is a late 18th century wedge-plan tenement located on a sloping corner site in Edinburgh. The building has four storeys, a basement, and an attic, featuring a four-bay elevation facing Leith Street, a single bay bowed elevation at the north corner, and a five-bay elevation towards Calton Road. The exterior is constructed from droved ashlar with polished margins, while coursed square rubble is used on the Calton Road side. The building has a regular arrangement of windows.

On the northwest elevation facing Leith Street, there are three modern timber shopfronts with recessed doorways at the ground floor. The upper floors have a cill course, with two single windows in the inner bays flanked by tripartite windows on the outer sides. The roof features an eaves cornice, a blocking course, and two dormers.

The north corner elevation includes steps leading down to a basement doorway and Calton Road. The upper floors have a central window with an apron and a projecting moulded cill below.

The east elevation facing Calton Road has predominantly regular fenestration, although there are some alterations and insertions at the lower floors, and blind windows on the upper storeys of the outer right bay.

In terms of glazing, the ground floor features plate glass in timber frames, while the upper floors predominantly have 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with 4-pane glazing in the side sections of the tripartite windows. The dormers have grey slate piend roofs, haffits, and fascias, with two rooflights positioned between the dormers. The pitched roof has a piended section to the north and is covered with graded grey slate. There is a corniced rendered ridge stack with circular cans and a corniced rubble and rendered wallhead stack on the east elevation.

Local climate

41 Leith Street, 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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