48 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh

48 Cockburn Street is a Scots Baronial tenement building designed by architects Peddie and Kinnear between 1859 and 1861. It stands three stories tall with an attic and features a public house on the ground floor. The building has crowstep-gabled bays facing Cockburn Street and Jackson's Close. It is constructed from squared and snecked stugged sandstone, with polished dressings that are painted at the ground level. The structure includes a stepped base course, a cornice at the ground floor, and a stepped string course at the second floor. Long and short quoins are present, along with roll-moulded openings on the ground floor and chamfered openings above.

On the north elevation facing Cockburn Street, there is a hood-moulded tripartite mullioned and transomed window with a carved date of 1860 on the first floor, alongside a mullioned and transomed bipartite window. The gable features a hood-moulded shouldered window. The east elevation facing Jackson's Close has two transomed windows on the first floor, a mullioned and transomed bipartite window on the second floor, and a hood-moulded shouldered window in the gable.

The building predominantly features plate glass in timber sash and case windows, with some having segmental-arched timber frames. The gables and skew are adorned with gabletted crowsteps, and the roof is covered with grey slates. Corniced end stacks are also present, along with recessed cast-iron downpipes that have decorative hoppers.