34 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 2002. Tenement. 4 related planning applications.
34 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- deep-zinc-rowan
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 2002
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 34 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1PB
- OS grid reference
- NT 258 736
- Coordinates
- 55.95047, -3.18937
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
34 Cockburn Street is a tenement building designed by architects Peddie and Kinnear, constructed between 1859 and 1861. This three-storey, three-bay structure features a symmetrical design with a shop on the ground floor. The second floor is distinguished by three gabled dormer windows that break the eaves. The building is made of squared and snecked lightly stugged sandstone, with polished dressings that are painted at the ground level.
There is a continuous string course that runs between the ground and first floors, which connects to similar features on the adjacent elevations. The entrance includes a timber-panelled door with a plate glass fanlight to the right, and there is a recessed glazed door leading to the shop. The windows are timber sash and case style, featuring four-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there is a corniced end stack with circular windows.
Local climate
34 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 — 4 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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