46 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. 3 related planning applications.
46 Portland Street, Leith, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-tallow-briar
- 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
- Address
- 46 Portland Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 4BA
- OS grid reference
- NT 262 766
- Coordinates
- 55.97718, -3.18336
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
48 Portland Street in Leith, Edinburgh, dates from around 1835 to 1870 and consists of a mirrored pair of two-storey, three-bay terraced houses. The buildings are constructed of cream ashlar sandstone, although No. 46 is painted. They feature a base course, a cill course at the first-floor cornice, and a blocking course. The windows are regularly spaced, with architraves on the ground floor windows.
The outer bays have corniced doorcases, with No. 46 having a moulded architrave and No. 48 featuring a broad surround. Both houses have rectangular fanlights above the doors. No. 48 also includes a canted piend-roofed dormer.
The windows are made of timber, with No. 48 having 12-pane sash and case windows. The roofs are covered with grey slates and have ashlar-coped skews, along with ashlar stacks, while one stack is rendered.
The front walls are low rubble with saddleback ashlar coping, and there is a coped rubble side wall.
Local climate
46 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 — 3 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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