31, 33 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh

31 and 33 Cockburn Street in Edinburgh is a three-storey tenement building designed by architects Peddie and Kinnear between 1859 and 1861. The ground floor features modern shops, while the upper levels are notable for a finialled, gabled corner turret that projects out at the first floor level. The turret is circular on the first floor, octagonal on the second, and square in the attic. The building is constructed from lightly stugged squared and snecked sandstone with polished dressings.

There is a continuous cornice at the ground floor, with stepped string courses above and below the second-floor windows. The windows are framed in stop-chamfered surrounds, with two stone-mullioned bipartite windows at the first floor and three finialled, pedimented dormers that break the eaves at the second floor. The first-floor windows of the corner turret feature bowed glass, and there is a blind arrowslit in the gable. An additional modern dormer is present in the attic, and the rear of the building has a bowed corner that is corbelled out at the attic level, leading to a crowstepped gable.

The first-floor windows have plate glass, while the second-floor windows are timber sash and case with four-pane glazing. The building is topped with a corniced stack that has circular cans and is covered with grey slates.