6 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. Building.
6 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tilted-finial-vermeil
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 6 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1BL
- OS grid reference
- NT 257 736
- Coordinates
- 55.95047, -3.19123
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
6 Cockburn Street is a later 19th century building, attributed to architects Peddie and Kinnear, constructed between 1859 and 1861. This asymmetrical, concave, three-storey and attic Scots Baronial structure is situated on a truncated wedge-shaped site between Advocate's and Warriston's Closes. It features squared and snecked lightly stugged ashlar with polished dressings, while the rear wings are made of rubble.
The building has a moulded string course at the first floor, with two bays on the right that are jettied on a machicolated corbel table at the second floor. There is also a moulded corbel table at the attic floor. The windows have chamfered surrounds, and the right side boasts a crowstepped gable topped with a thistle finial, which includes a carved panel above a stone-mullioned and -transomed window.
To the left, there are gabled dormerheads with monograms (WC and RC) on two attic windows that break the eaves. The string course and attic corbel table continue to a crowstep-gabled two-window bay facing Warriston's Close. The windows are fitted with 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case style, and the roof is covered with grey slates.
Local climate
6 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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