3, 7 Rosebank Cottages, Gardner's Crescent, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977.

3, 7 Rosebank Cottages, Gardner's Crescent, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
winter-floor-dawn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
OS grid reference
NT 244 730
Coordinates
55.94491, -3.21051
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

20 and 24 Rosebank Cottages, located on Gardner's Crescent in Edinburgh, were designed by Alexander MacGregor in 1860. These are three rows of two-storey symmetrical flatted cottages, each with gardens at the front and back. The southern side features three 12-bay rows (numbers 1-8, 9-16, and 17-24) separated by a central avenue with footpaths leading to the individual houses. There is also a 9-bay row to the south (numbers 25-30), a 6-bay row to the southwest (numbers 31-34), and a 3-bay row at the rear (numbers 35-36). The cottages are constructed from squared and snecked sandstone, with bull-faced sandstone quoins. They have lugged architraves around the openings and pillar-box fanlights above the doors.

The northeast (front) elevations feature a panelled timber door at the center of each 3-bay section on the ground floor, with single windows on both floors in the flanking bays and a center window on the first floor (which is much reduced for numbers 25-30). There are no windows in the center of the first floor above numbers 3 and 4.

On the southwest (rear) elevations, there is an external stair at right angles to the terrace leading to a first-floor balcony that serves the 6-bay sections. Each end of the balcony has a panelled timber door flanked by single windows, with a small single-light window positioned between the door and the innermost window. The ground floor below features single windows, with an additional small single-light window aligned with one above.

The cottages predominantly have 2-pane timber sash and case windows. The roofs are covered with grey slate and have piended designs, with raised stone skews that return at the bottom edges. The northern rows feature shouldered, corniced stacks, while the southern rows have coped and rendered stacks with circular cans. The properties also include cast-iron rainwater goods and decorative geometric-patterned ironwork handrails on the steps and balconies.

The interiors were not seen in 1997. The cottages are bordered by low coped boundary walls that define the gardens.

Local climate

3, 7 Rosebank Cottages, Gardner's Crescent, 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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