73 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, public house. 3 related planning applications.
73 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- swift-string-gold
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Tenement, public house
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
John MacLachlan, 1892-3. Asymmetrical 4-storey and attic (5 storeys to Cockburn Street) Scots Baronial corner tenement with shop (former bank) and public house to ground floor; canted octagonal bay to corner, corbelled to circular turret with ball-finialled candle-snuffer roof above 3rd floor; single bay to High Street, 9 bays to Cockburn Street. Cream ashlar to ground, squared and snecked rock-cut sandstone with polished dressings above. Dentilled cornice to 3rd floor. Gabletted crowstepped gables. Roll-moulded openings.
CORNER BAY: steps to door in round-arched surround flanked by blocked fluted Ionic columns; decorative corbel and balustraded apron to window at 1st floor; scrolled pediments to 2nd floor windows; machicolation to parapet with semicircular merlons; circular cap-house with segmental-pedimented windows above.
S (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: gabled bay with tall round-arched windows to ground floor; bracketed balcony to 1st floor, monogrammed cartouche (NB); 4-storey oriel above; circular window in gable; apex stack with corbelled chimney breast.
SW (COCKBURN STREET) ELEVATION: 4-bay section to left: timber panelled door to left in corniced and consoled door piece with letterbox fanlight and Ionic colonnettes; 3 segmental-arched openings to right at ground floor; predominantly 2-light mullioned windows above; corbel table to 2nd floor; gabled dormer to attic with asymmetrical stack corbelled out to left and small dormer with shaped pediment to outer left. 2-bay gabled section to centre: 2 round-arched windows to right at ground floor, oriel window corbelled out to left; bracketed balcony to 1st floor; stone-mullioned bipartite windows to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors, those to 1st with scrolled pediments; ball-finialled bartizan to left at 4th floor; small stone-mullioned bipartite window with segmental pediment in gable. Single bay to right: 2 round-arched windows to ground floor; dormer to attic with shaped pediment.
Small-pane glazing to upper sashes, plate glass lower in timber sash and case windows. Green/grey slates. Corniced apex and ridge stacks with circular cans.
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