1 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh

Peddie and Kinnear, Architects, 1859-61. 3-storey and attic Scots Baronial corner block built as the Cockburn Hotel (now offices), 4 bays to Market Street, 1 to Cockburn Street, with circular entrance tower to angle of Market Street and Cockburn Street, corbelled to rectangular cap-house at attic. Squared and snecked lightly stugged sandstone with polished dressings. Moulded string course to ground floor, stepping up over entrance and carved panel with profile bust of Lord Cockburn. Crowstepped gables with apex stacks; scrolled detail to skews. Windows in stop-chamfered, roll-moulded surrounds. Door with border-glazed fanlight in roll-moulded surround to base of tower; finialled dormers to NE and SW; engaged 2-storey ogee-roofed circular tourelle corbelled out in re-entrant angle to NE.

SW (COCKBURN STREET) ELEVATION: quadripartite bowed window in re-entrant angle with cast-iron brattishing to parapet; moulded string course stepping up to curve over attic window in gable; monogram (PK) in gable.

MARKET STREET ELEVATION: 3 regularly fenestrated bays to right (stone-mullioned bipartite windows); bracketed balcony with decorative cast-iron railings and rectangular-plan 2-light oriel with decorative brattishing to 1st floor; carved sign (THE COCKBURN HOTEL) below corbel table to attic with 3 finialled gabled dormerheaded windows breaking eaves and 2 corniced, shouldered wallhead stacks. Projecting gabled bay to left with rounded corners, corbelled to square at attic level; bipartite window to basement, tripartite window to ground, 2-storey canted oriel corbelled out to 1st and 2nd floors; small stone-mullioned bipartite window in gable.

RAILINGS: decorative cast-iron railings to basement area to Market Street.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Corniced wallhead and gablehead stacks with circular cans.