47 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 block.

47 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
salt-wicket-nightshade
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Tenement block
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Peddie and Kinnear, Architects, 1859-61. 3-storey and attic 7-bay symmetrical Scots Baronial tenement block with shops to ground floor; corbelled-out bowed oriels to 1st and 2nd floors in outer bays, corbelled to square fish-scale-slated ogee-roofed caphouses with weathervanes at attic. Ashlar to ground floor, lightly stugged squared and snecked sandstone with polished dressings above. Continuous cornice to ground floor; machicolated corbel course to eaves. Roll-moulded segmental-arched openings to ground floor; timber-panelled door to flats with plate glass fanlight. Windows above in roll-moulded stop-chamfered surrounds. 5 finialled, gabled segmental-arched dormer windows to attic.

REAR ELEVATION: machicolated corbel table to attic floor; crowstepped gable to right, finialled dormerheaded windows breaking eaves to left.

Plate glass to shops; 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows above. Grey slates. Corniced stacks with circular cans.

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