163, 165, 167 Rose Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.
163, 165, 167 Rose Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- moated-vestry-mist
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1996
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 163, 165, 167 Rose Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4LS
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 738
- Coordinates
- 55.95146, -3.20527
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 163, 165, and 167 Rose Street in Edinburgh, dates from around 1780 and is an irregular three-storey and attic five-bay tenement with commercial premises on the ground floor, situated on a corner site. The exterior features coursed rubble with droved ashlar and band courses at the ground level. The ground floor includes a five-bay restaurant with a consoled cornice, a door to a common stair on the right, original band courses, and long and short quoins. There are four dormers, one of which is canted, and a gabled return with bipartite windows on the left side. The rear elevation rises to four storeys.
The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with plate glass and replacements on the second floor. The roof features ashlar coped skews, a rebuilt brick stack to the west, and is covered with grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
163, 165, 167 Rose Street, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- 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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