Stills Gallery And Tenement, 23 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.
Stills Gallery And Tenement, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- winter-chapel-gold
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NT 257 737
- Coordinates
- 55.95073, -3.19028
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Stills Gallery and Tenement, located at 23 Cockburn Street in Edinburgh, was designed by architects Peddie and Kinnear and built between 1859 and 1861. This three-storey, two-bay gabled tenement features an original shop front on the ground floor. It is constructed from squared and snecked lightly stugged sandstone with polished dressings, although the ground floor is painted.
A continuous cornice runs along the ground floor, and there is a moulded string course that connects to the neighbouring buildings, stepping up over the second-floor window and a date plaque that reads "1860." The ground floor has stop-chamfered roll-moulded openings, and the windows feature stop-chamfered surrounds. The crow-stepped gable is topped with a thistle finial and has a small wallhead stack on the right, which includes a carved monogram (PK).
The shop entrance consists of a two-leaf timber-panelled door with a glazed inner door. The ground floor is fitted with plate glass, while the upper floors have timber sash and case windows with two-pane upper and four-pane lower glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are corniced stacks with circular cans.
Local climate
Stills Gallery And Tenement, 23 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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