159, 161 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.

159, 161 Rose Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
quartered-brick-primrose
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
159, 161 Rose Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4LS
OS grid reference
NT 248 738
Coordinates
55.95151, -3.20508
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 159 and 161 Rose Street in Edinburgh, dates from around 1780. It is a three-storey and attic tenement featuring seven bays, with a shop and bar on the ground floor flanking a common stair door. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble with droved ashlar and band courses at the ground level. On the eastern side, there are a pair of tripartite dormers, while the western side has two earlier piend-roofed dormers, one of which is tripartite and located on the left. The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and is topped with grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995.

Local climate

159, 161 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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