19 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 2 related planning applications.
19 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- woven-newel-ash
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Address
- 19 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh, EH3 7RY
- OS grid reference
- NT 239 736
- Coordinates
- 55.95018, -3.21904
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 Rothesay Terrace is a tenement block built between 1906 and 1907 by R H Watherston and A Craig of J. Watherston and Sons. This five-storey building, with a basement and six storeys at the rear, features an irregular plan and is designed in a plain classical style. It is situated at a corner on a steeply sloping site, with slightly advanced sections from the terrace line to the east and angled corner bays.
The exterior is constructed of sandstone ashlar, with a channelled ground floor and a banded base course. There is a moulded cill course at the ground, first, and second floors, and a deep corniced cill course at the fourth floor. The building has a corniced eaves course and full-height, three-light corniced canted bays, along with bipartite architraved windows on the south side and full-height bowed bays on the west side.
On the west elevation, which faces Douglas Gardens, there is an advanced section to the left with full-height bowed bays and rectangular tripartite bays to the far left. A prominent stone parapet with a cast-iron lamp is located to the right, leading to a doorway in the re-entrant angle. The fenestration is regular, and there is a prominent wallhead stack to the far right.
The windows predominantly feature plate glass in timber sash and case frames, with some larger windows having plate glass over two-pane timber casements. The bowed glazing is present in the bays on the west elevation. The roof is a double pitch M-section design with a corniced ashlar ridge parapet and gable end stacks fitted with modern clay cans. The south elevation has cast-iron railings on ashlar coping stone edging the basement recess to the street, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.
Inside, the building includes lift access to the flats.
Local climate
19 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.
More on this building
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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