6, 8, 10 Smith's Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement.

6, 8, 10 Smith's Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
watchful-spandrel-martin
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Tenement
OS grid reference
NT 268 755
Coordinates
55.96706, -3.17392
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

6, 8, 10 Smith's Place is an early 19th century classical tenement featuring a 9-bay, 3-storey structure over a raised basement. The building has an ashlar street frontage, with the basement and the first and second floors being droved. There is a band course at the principal and first floor levels, and channelled rustication at the principal floor, with voussoirs above the door and window openings. The first floor windows have cills and aprons, and there is a blocking course at the eaves. The entrance doors to the principal floor and basement are located in the 3rd, 5th, and 7th bays.

The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case, with plate glass at the principal floor and basement of No 6. No 6 also features a later 2-leaf, 4-panelled door. The roof is covered with grey slate and has ashlar multi-flue stacks with circular cans.

There are stone steps leading to the entrance doors, accompanied by wrought-iron handrails. At No 6, there is a coped, coursed rubble wall with modern railings, while No 10 has spearhead railings.

Local climate

6, 8, 10 Smith's Place, 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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