17 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 1 related planning application.

17 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Address
17 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh, EH3 7RY
OS grid reference
NT 239 737
Coordinates
55.95033, -3.21891
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

18 Rothesay Terrace in Edinburgh is a terraced townhouse building designed by R H Watherston and A Craig between 1906 and 1907. It features four storeys and a basement, built in a plain classical style with sandstone ashlar. The entrance platts extend over the basements, and there is a banded base course. A moulded band course at the second floor includes a cornice that connects to No. 16, which is listed separately. The building has a corniced eaves course and corniced main doorpieces with moulded architraved surrounds and rectangular fanlights. Above the main entrance, there is a corniced and moulded architraved window at the first floor with a raised apron. To the right, there are corniced two-storey, three-light canted bays, with bipartite windows above the canted bay at the second and third floors.

The windows are made of plate glass in timber sash and case frames, with some larger windows featuring plate glass over two-pane timber casements. The doors are two-leaf timber panel doors. The roof is a double pitch M-section design, with corniced ashlar ridge and gable end stacks topped with modern clay cans. The property has cast-iron railings on ashlar coping stone edging the basement recess that faces the street, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

17 Rothesay Terrace, 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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