7 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.

7 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
lesser-chimney-elder
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
7 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1BP
OS grid reference
NT 257 737
Coordinates
55.95071, -3.19084
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

5 Cockburn Street in Edinburgh is a three-storey and attic, four-bay tenement built in the Scots Baronial style between 1859 and 1861 by architects Peddie and Kinnear. The building features a slightly convex facade with shops on the ground floor. It is constructed from squared and snecked lightly stugged sandstone, with polished dressings that have been painted at the ground level. There are moulded string courses at the ground and second floors, and the ground floor openings have roll-moulded surrounds, while the windows above are framed in tabbed, stop-chamfered surrounds. The facade is regularly fenestrated, with four finialled gabled dormer windows in the attic. The shop to the left has a two-leaf timber panelled storm door. The ground floor windows are fitted with plate glass, while the upper floors have two-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are corniced stacks with circular cans.

Local climate

7 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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