53 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. Tenement block.
53 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- former-rubble-dale
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Tenement block
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Peddie and Kinnear, Architects, 1859-61. 3-storey and attic 3-bay Scots Baronial tenement block with shops to ground floor; central crowstepped gable with tall fluted apex stack. Lightly stugged squared and snecked sandstone with polished dressings (painted to ground). Continuous cornice to ground floor; stepped string course beneath 2nd floor windows; rhones supported by metal brackets and carved owl and gryphon. Windows in stop-chamfered surrounds; stone-mullioned bipartite windows to 1st floor; basket-arched 2nd to floor; finialled, swept pyramidal-roofed 2-light dormers to attic.
Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Corniced apex and ridge stacks with circular cans.
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