Rosebery Reservoir is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 November 1998. Reservoir, dam, bridge. 1 related planning application.
Rosebery Reservoir
- WRENN ID
- under-rampart-violet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1998
- Type
- Reservoir, dam, bridge
- Address
- Rosebery Reservoir, EH23 4SS
- OS grid reference
- NT 310 569
- Coordinates
- 55.80121, -3.10158
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Rosebery Reservoir was designed by James and Alexander Leslie in 1880. It features a Z plan dam made mainly of squared and snecked, bull-faced pink sandstone, along with sandstone rubble and a stugged semi-circular coping on the slightly battered retaining wall. The structure includes a polished sandstone corniced upstand shaft topped with cast iron railings, and there is a pedimented opening to a channel that emerges from the base of the embankment. To the west of the dam, there is a curved overflow with a stepped down channel that is crossed by a plate girder bridge.
Local climate
Rosebery Reservoir sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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