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244, 246, 248, 250, 252 Leith Walk, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9664 / 55°57'59"N

Longitude: -3.1758 / 3°10'32"W

OS Eastings: 326704

OS Northings: 675446

OS Grid: NT267754

Mapcode National: GBR 8S8.6P

Mapcode Global: WH6SM.59ZF

Plus Code: 9C7RXR8F+HM

Entry Name: 244, 246, 248, 250, 252 Leith Walk, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 244-252 (Even Nos) Leith Walk

Listing Date: 29 March 1995

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 365019

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27717

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200365019

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Leith Walk

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Shop Tenement

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Description

William Constable, 1902. 4-storey tenement with chamfered corner and shops at ground floor. Cream sandstone, ashlar front, coursed rubble to rear. Continuous dentilled cornice above shopfronts; cill course at 1st and 2nd floor, cill band course at 3rd floor; eaves cornice.

SE (LEITH WALK) ELEVATION: 7-bay including chamfered corner bay with blocking course bearing tablet to outer left. Common stair doorway to centre with panelled door and plate glass fanlight, shopfronts flanking (mostly altered). Regular fenestration with bipartite windows to 4th and 7th bay from left; 2 wallhead stacks.

SW (ORCHARDFIELD LANE) ELEVATION: 2-bay; windows to left bay; tall wallhead stack to right bay and to outer left.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: chamfered corners; regular fenestration and central wallhead stack.

Timber sash and case windows, mostly plate glass glazing to front, some replacement windows, 4-pane windows to rear. Slate roof; 5 wallhead stacks (see above), mutual stack. Moulded eaves gutter.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

Statement of Interest

The developers of this site, according to the Dean of Guild, were the Victoria India Rubber Mills, presumably as a speculative, money-raising venture rather than linked to their millwork or as residential property for the millworkers.

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