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
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Tenement
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Peddie and Kinnear, Architects, 1859-61. 3-storey and attic tenement with modern shops to ground on narrow, sloping site between Jackson's Close and Fleshmarket Close, 2 bays to Cockburn Street, that to NE circular, corbelled out at 2nd floor to circular stair tower with finialled, fish-scale slated conical roof. Squared and snecked lightly stugged sandstone. Continuous cornice to ground floor. Blank crowstep-gabled bay with blank inscription panel to Fleshmarket Close. Gabled bay to Cockburn Street with mullioned bipartite windows to 1st and 2nd floors.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows; bowed glass to corner tower. Grey slates. Stone skews.

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