52 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. 1 related planning application.
52 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- burning-lancet-lichen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 52 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1PB
- OS grid reference
- NT 258 736
- Coordinates
- 55.95038, -3.18854
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
52 Cockburn Street is a tenement building designed by architects Peddie and Kinnear, constructed between 1859 and 1861. It stands three storeys high with an attic and features shops on the ground floor, situated on a narrow, sloping site bordered by Fleshmarket Close and Cockburn Street. The building has a distinctive bowed shape to the north and is corbelled to support a square caphouse at the third floor level.
The exterior is made of squared and snecked lightly stugged sandstone, accented with polished dressings. There is a string course at the ground floor, and the openings on this level have roll-moulded surrounds, while the windows are set in stop-chamfered surrounds. The building includes three dormer heads with finials and pediments that break the eaves on the east side, along with a ball-finialled crow-stepped gable on the caphouse.
Access to the flats is through a timber-panelled door that features a six-pane glazed fanlight. The windows are timber sash and case, with four-pane glazing, and the ground and first floors have bowed glass. The roof is covered with grey slates.
Local climate
52 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 — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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