59, 61, 63 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. 2 related planning applications.

59, 61, 63 Rose Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
shifting-timber-briar
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
59, 61, 63 Rose Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2NH
OS grid reference
NT 252 739
Coordinates
55.95253, -3.19908
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

59, 61, 63 Rose Street is a tenement building constructed by 1780, featuring later alterations and additions. It is a four-storey and attic structure with a broad two-bay design, including commercial premises on the ground floor. The exterior is made of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. The first and second floors have tripartite windows, while the third floor features bipartite windows. The building has a mansard roof with a pair of bipartite dormers. The rear elevation is also four-storey and attic with a two-bay rubble design, displaying bipartite windows on the right side.

The windows are 4-pane timber sash and the building has ashlar coped skews. The harled stacks have been reduced to gablehead and the roof is covered with grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995.

Local climate

59, 61, 63 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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