32 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. Commercial, house. 2 related planning applications.

32 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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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
Commercial, house
Address
32 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1PB
OS grid reference
NT 258 736
Coordinates
55.95046, -3.18945
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

32 Cockburn Street in Edinburgh is a Baronial-style building designed by architects Peddie and Kinnear between 1859 and 1861. This three-storey, three-bay structure features a machicolated parapet and a rounded angle leading to Anchor Close. The exterior is made of squared and snecked lightly stugged sandstone with polished dressings. A moulded string course runs between the ground and first floors, stepping up on the left side of the elevation. The openings are stop-chamfered, and there is a central two-leaf timber-panelled storm door. The first floor has segmental-arched windows, while the timber sash and case windows have four-pane glazing.

Local climate

32 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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