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Latitude: 55.9657 / 55°57'56"N
Longitude: -3.1764 / 3°10'35"W
OS Eastings: 326660
OS Northings: 675364
OS Grid: NT266753
Mapcode National: GBR 8S8.2Z
Mapcode Global: WH6SM.59NZ
Plus Code: 9C7RXR8F+7C
Entry Name: 276-278 Leith Walk, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 276, 278 Leith Walk and 1, 3 Balfour Street
Listing Date: 29 March 1995
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 365028
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27722
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200365028
Late 19th century. 4-storey corner tenement with shops at ground. Cream sandstone, stugged ashlar with polished dressings to principal elevations, squared and snecked rubble to rear. Bold, roll-moulded reveals to ground floor openings; cill course at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor; chamfered reveals; 3rd floor windows breaking eaves in finialled shaped dormerheads.
SE (LEITH WALK) ELEVATION: 4-bay including corner tower. Rectangular shopfront (boxed-in) to outer left; single window to bay to left of centre. Round-arched doorway in chamfered corner bay to outer right; large round-arched display window to bay to right of centre. 3-storey canted window to corner bay to outer right corbelled above ground floor with 3 linked dormerheads and finialled pyramidal roof. Single windows to remaining bays. Cross-section wallhead stack corbelled above 2nd floor to centre.
NE (BALFOUR STREET) ELEVATION: 3-bay; common stair doorway with window flanking to right of centre bay. Replacement shopfront to outer right (possibly encasing original). Large round-arched display window to outer left. Single windows to floors above.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: single windows.
Timber sash and case windows, mostly plate glass glazing and modern replacement windows, some 4-pane. Slate roof; wallhead stack (see above), mutual stacks. Crowstepped skews to front. Moulded eaves gutters.
INTERIOR: not seen 1993.
The design is matched by the neighbouring tenement, Nos 280-284 Leith Walk (listed separately).
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