21 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. 3 related planning applications.
21 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- crooked-lantern-swift
- 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
- Address
- 21 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1BP
- OS grid reference
- NT 257 737
- Coordinates
- 55.9507, -3.1904
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building is a public house and tenement located at 11-13 Cockburn Street in Edinburgh, designed by architects Peddie and Kinnear between 1859 and 1861. It is a three-storey and attic structure featuring twin gables and a four-bay layout, with shops on the ground floor. The exterior is constructed of squared and snecked lightly stugged sandstone, accented with polished dressings, although the ground floor has been painted.
The building has a continuous cornice at the ground floor level, with moulded cill courses and stop-chamfered windows on the first and second floors. On the second floor, there are two stone-mullioned bipartite windows, and above them, the attic contains small windows. The gables are adorned with gabletted crowsteps and finials, along with bracketed skewputts. At the center of the attic, there is a small timber dormer with a finial.
The windows are made of plate glass set in timber sash and case frames, and the roof is covered with grey slates.
Local climate
21 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 — 3 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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