Rose Cottage, 27 Main Street, Davidson's Mains, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 October 1978. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Rose Cottage, 27 Main Street, Davidson's Mains, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- odd-chapel-lark
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rose Cottage, 27 Main Street, Davidson's Mains, Edinburgh, EH4 5BZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 206 754
- Coordinates
- 55.96561, -3.27348
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Rose Cottage, located at 27 Main Street in Davidson's Mains, Edinburgh, dates from around 1825 to 1830. This simple late Georgian cottage has a distinctive shape, positioned at an angle to the street. It is a single-storey building with a dormerless attic and a high, slated roof featuring straight skewed gables and end stacks. The front has a two-window layout with a central door, constructed from coursed rubble with pinnings and droved dressings, and flush margins. Plain pilasters are integrated with an eaves band course that frames a four-panelled door topped by a rectilinear fanlight.
The gables are made of split boulder rubble with ashlar stacks, each featuring a single off-centre attic window with original glazing. There is a right-hand door, which is now blocked, with steps at the west gable. At the back, there is a short piended wing, and the ground floor has been reglazed. A later front garden wall made of concrete includes piers with fluted friezes.
Local climate
Rose Cottage, 27 Main Street, Davidson's Mains, Edinburgh receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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