55 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.

55 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
Address
55 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1BS
OS grid reference
NT 258 737
Coordinates
55.95072, -3.18906
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

53 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 three bays and shops on the ground floor, highlighted by a central crow-stepped gable with a tall fluted chimney stack. It is constructed from lightly stugged squared and snecked sandstone with polished dressings, although the ground floor has been painted. A continuous cornice runs along the ground floor, and there is a stepped string course beneath the second-floor windows. The rainwater goods are supported by metal brackets and adorned with carved owls and gryphons.

The windows have stop-chamfered surrounds, with stone-mullioned bipartite windows on the first floor and basket-arched windows on the second floor. The attic features finialled, swept pyramidal-roofed two-light dormers. The building predominantly uses plate glass in timber sash and case windows, and it is topped with grey slates. The apex and ridge stacks are corniced and have circular cans.

Local climate

55 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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