22-45 Rosemount Buildings, Gardner's Crescent, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Industrial housing.

22-45 Rosemount Buildings, Gardner's Crescent, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
lost-eave-sedge
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1979
Type
Industrial housing
OS grid reference
NT 245 730
Coordinates
55.9443, -3.21014
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

22-45 Rosemount Buildings, located on Gardner's Crescent in Edinburgh, is a model industrial housing complex designed by William Lambie Moffat in 1860. This three-storey building features a near square-plan quadrangle with four-stage, square-plan corner towers, constructed from polychrome brick. The design includes a base course, band courses between the stories, an eaves course, a dentilled cornice, and a three-storey giant pilaster order flanking the corner towers and spaced regularly along the elevations. The windows are arranged in a regular pattern with advanced cills.

The northeast (front) and southwest elevations consist of 16 bays, with pilasters placed every two bays in the intermediate sections between the corner towers. A projecting dentilled cornice is located between the second and third floors of the corner towers, and there are three narrow round-arched openings on the third floor, which are glazed with stained glass. Above the windows, there is a cill course, a dentilled band course, and a dentilled eaves course at the fourth floor.

The northwest and southeast (side) elevations feature round-arched entrances at the ground level of the bays adjacent to the corner towers, with pilasters arranged every two bays in the intermediate sections, mirroring the front elevation's design.

Inside the court, there are two timber doors with fanlights and flanking windows that create a continuous pattern. The stair-towers are constructed around square shafts. The windows include 12-pane timber sash and case styles, with blind 4-pane timber sash and case windows at the ground level of the outer bays. The first and second floors of the outer bays feature segmental-arched heads to French windows, which are equipped with metal window guards. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piended design, with pyramidal roofs atop the corner towers. The roof on the side elevations drops slightly in height in five sections towards the southwest and northwest. Additional features include coped stacks, corniced fireclay cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods, including original cast-iron drying poles. Railings on slim columns surround the galleries in the internal court. The interiors were not seen in 1997.

Local climate

22-45 Rosemount Buildings, 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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