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276-278 Leith Walk, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

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

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Leith Walk

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Shop Tenement

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Description

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.

Statement of Interest

The design is matched by the neighbouring tenement, Nos 280-284 Leith Walk (listed separately).

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