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The pub’s story
The Auld Hundred occupies the ground floor of 100-104 Rose Street, a Category B New Town tenement built by 1780. The council’s cultural assessment distinguishes that fabric from the modernised public-bar frontage and notes that few original interiors remain, apart from shutters and an Art Nouveau door handle. The pub’s own material says the building began as a mission hall and became a public house around 1800, with the name linked to the traditional tune for the 23rd Psalm. CAMRA and local guides repeat that account, so it is best treated as an attributed venue story rather than proven continuous pub history. Today the two-level venue combines a downstairs bar with an upstairs restaurant, cask ale, Scottish food, music and a Tuesday quiz. Visit for a lived-in Rose Street pub, but read its age primarily in the exterior rather than expecting a preserved early interior.
What to notice
- 01
The by-1780 date belongs to the New Town tenement, not automatically to the present pub business.
- 02
Use the spiral stair for the upstairs restaurant; downstairs is the walk-in bar and the operator says dogs are welcome there.
- 03
The official page currently lists special August hours as well as the regular schedule. Recheck before a late visit outside the dates shown.
The time rail
The building, the pub and its interior may date from different periods. The timeline keeps documented dates separate from tradition.
The council’s New Town assessment dates the 100-104 Rose Street tenement to construction by 1780.
The operator says the building was converted from a mission hall to a public house around 1800; CAMRA and local guides repeat the account without a cited primary record.
CAMRA published an exterior record of the Auld Hundred, providing a dated modern record of the current named pub.
CAMRA’s current record identifies this as the date of its last venue survey.
CAMRA last updated its current venue record, retaining the mission-hall account and traditional-bar description.
The operator lists the Auld Hundred as a live music, cask-ale and Scottish-food venue with downstairs walk-ins and an upstairs bookable restaurant.
Sources & confidence
Historic Environment Scotland confirms the building’s early New Town fabric and statutory context. The operator and CAMRA establish the current pub’s food, whisky, cask and music offer, and attribute the mission-hall conversion to the nineteenth century. The profile makes that attribution explicit rather than treating it as settled architectural history.
Research reviewed
- The Auld HundredThe Auld Hundredofficial
SupportsCurrent venue identity, 100 Rose Street address, food and drink offer, and the operator’s mission-hall/public-house history claim.
- BookingsThe Auld Hundredofficial
SupportsCurrent opening hours, restaurant booking policy, downstairs walk-ins, children and dog information.
- Drinks menuThe Auld Hundredofficial
SupportsOperator wording that the building started as a mission hall, was converted around 1800, and the attributed Auld Hundred name explanation.
- Auld Hundred, EdinburghCampaign for Real Alespecialist
SupportsCurrent pub description, dated survey/update, cask-ale and facilities information, weekly hours, mission-hall account and current interior features.
- Princes Street Cultural Significance AssessmentCity of Edinburgh Councilgovernment
SupportsCategory B 100-104 Rose Street building, by-1780 date, later ground-floor changes, modern pub front and limited surviving original interior features.
- Edinburgh’s oldest bars and pubsForever Edinburgheditorial
SupportsCouncil-branded visitor editorial repeating the mission-hall and around-1800 conversion account, and current pub description.
- The Auld HundredEdinburghGuideeditorial
SupportsIndependent current venue listing and attributed explanation of the name and mission-hall conversion.
