Hanover Buildings, 66-84 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. Office. 11 related planning applications.
Hanover Buildings, 66-84 Rose Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- under-iron-hyssop
- 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
- Office
- Address
- Hanover Buildings, 66-84 Rose Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2NN
- OS grid reference
- NT 252 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95243, -3.19829
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Hanover Buildings, located at 66-84 Rose Street in Edinburgh, was designed by T Forbes Maclennan in 1929 and later reglazed and extended to the east by Hugh Martin & Partners in 1976. This impressive four-storey building features a half basement and an attic, and is designed in a stripped classical style with 13 bays. The exterior is constructed of polished red sandstone ashlar and includes a glazed curtain wall.
The former entrance bay is located at the center, featuring a doorpiece that incorporates a base course as an architrave, with channelled cavetto piers and a cornice above. This entrance is flanked by ten bays of giant pilasters, with curtain glazing in between. The solid outer bays each have a window on every floor. The building is topped with a stylised entablature and a small ashlar attic that has a bipartite window in each bay.
The rear elevation consists of ten bays and is a stripped version of the front, featuring a broken pedimented centerpiece with tripartite windows. There is a fine wrought-iron sign to the left, which was originally positioned at the center of the building.
The interior has been modernized for office use.
Local climate
Hanover Buildings, 66-84 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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