50 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.
50 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-finial-lake
- 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
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NT 258 736
- Coordinates
- 55.95037, -3.18865
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
50 Cockburn Street is a tenement building designed by architects Peddie and Kinnear between 1859 and 1861. It stands three stories high with an attic and features modern shops on the ground floor. The building is situated on a narrow, sloping site between Jackson's Close and Fleshmarket Close, with two bays facing Cockburn Street. The northeast bay is circular and corbelled out at the second floor, leading to a circular stair tower topped with a finialled, fish-scale slated conical roof.
The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked lightly stugged sandstone, with a continuous cornice at the ground floor. There is a blank crowstep-gabled bay on the Fleshmarket Close side, which includes a blank inscription panel. The gabled bay facing Cockburn Street features mullioned bipartite windows on the first and second floors. The windows are made of plate glass set in timber sash and case frames, with bowed glass on the corner tower. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the building has stone skews.
Local climate
50 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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