Eagle Buildings, 19 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 block. 5 related planning applications.
Eagle Buildings, 19 Rose Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tattered-paling-mallow
- 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 block
- Address
- Eagle Buildings, 19 Rose Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PR
- OS grid reference
- NT 254 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95308, -3.19595
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Eagle Buildings, located at 19 Rose Street in Edinburgh, is a four-storey office block originally converted from a Burgher Church in 1829 by Robert Brown and significantly altered and extended in 1905 by George Washington Browne. The building features a plain classical style, constructed from polished cream sandstone ashlar. The façade includes segmental-headed windows at the ground floor and round-headed windows on the second floor. Paired pilasters frame the western bay and two eastern bays, with the right bay being a later addition. There are cornices above the second and third floors, topped with a solid parapet and a mansard roof that has corniced bipartite timber dormers. The inner right and left bays have arched doors.
To the east, there is a four-bay pilastered rendered return with a raised ashlar attic at the center. The western return is made of stugged ashlar and has two bays at the center, along with a segmental-pedimented three-bay polished ashlar raised attic at the center.
The rear elevation is plain, featuring two massive loading bays that have been inserted. The windows are plate glass timber sash and case, and the mansard roof is covered with grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
Eagle Buildings, 19 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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