48 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
48 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lesser-foundation-blackthorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Tenement
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Peddie and Kinnear, Architects, 1859-61. 3-storey and attic Scots Baronial tenement with public house to ground floor; crowstep-gabled bays to Cockburn Street and Jackson's Close. Squared and snecked stugged sandstone with polished dressings (painted to ground). Stepped base course; cornice to ground floor; stepped string course to 2nd floor. Long and short quoins. Roll-moulded openings to ground floor; chamfered above.
N (COCKBURN STREET) ELEVATION: hood-moulded tripartite mullioned and transomed window with carved date (1860) to 1st floor. Mullioned and transomed bipartite window to 1st floor. Hoodmoulded shouldered window in gable.
E (JACKSON'S CLOSE) ELEVATION: 2 transomed windows to 1st floor; mullioned and transomed bipartite to 2nd floor; hoodmoulded shouldered window in gable.
Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows, some with segmental-arched timber frames. Gabletted crowsteps to gables and skew. Grey slates. Corniced end stacks. Recessed cast-iron down pipes with decorative hoppers.
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