17 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement block. 6 related planning applications.
17 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- cold-iron-elm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Tenement block
- Address
- 17 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1BP
- OS grid reference
- NT 257 737
- Coordinates
- 55.95078, -3.19052
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
17 Cockburn Street in Edinburgh is a three-storey and attic Scots Baronial tenement block designed by architects Peddie and Kinnear between 1859 and 1861. The building features a machicolated oriel that projects from the center at the second and attic floors, with a public house located on the ground floor. It is constructed from squared and snecked lightly stugged sandstone, with polished dressings that have been painted at the ground level.
Above the shop, there is a moulded corbel that steps over square rosette panels, and a moulded eaves course that includes a date panel inscribed with the year 1860. The ground floor has roll-moulded openings, while the upper floors feature stop-chamfered openings. The attic includes a small window in the oriel, topped with a segmental pediment that has carved initials (PK) in a finialled, kneelered gable. There are also two flanking dormers with decorative pediments.
The windows are timber sash and case, with two panes in the upper sections and four panes in the lower sections. The roof is covered with grey slates.
Local climate
17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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