Description

Circa 1780. Irregular 3-storey and attic 5-bay tenement with commercial premises at ground flanking on corner site. Coursed rubble with droved ashlar and band courses at ground. At ground, 5-bay restaurant with consoled cornice; door to common stair to right; original band courses and long and short quoins. 4 dormers (1 canted). Gabled return with bipartite windows to left. 4-storey rear elevation.

12-pane timber sash and case windows; plate glass and replacements to 2nd floor. Ashlar coped skews; rebuilt brick stack to W; grey slates.

INTERIOR: not seen 1995.

Statement of Interest

A Group with 159 & 161 Rose Street as a significant surviving part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808729

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record