149 Rose Street, Edinburgh

149 Rose Street in Edinburgh is a telephone exchange building designed by Leonard Stokes between 1901 and 1903, with an extension added to the rear by the Office of Works in 1912. It is a three-storey structure with an attic and features twelve bays. The exterior is made of roughly polished cream sandstone ashlar, with harled infill on the upper floors. The ground floor has large arcaded windows beneath a projecting cornice decorated with egg and dart moulding, and the entrance is set within a deep cavetto moulded frame. The outer bays are accentuated by giant pilasters and open pediments, while an additional bay to the east includes a simple architraved door at ground level. The first and second floor windows are connected by a roll-moulded architrave and ashlar bands, topped with a cornice and a solid harled parapet. The rear elevation presents a simplified harled version of the front. The building features timber sash and case windows with eight panes, and the interior has been converted for office use.