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
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Tenement block
- OS grid reference
- NT 258 737
- Coordinates
- 55.95073, -3.18933
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
47 Cockburn Street in Edinburgh is a three-storey and attic, seven-bay tenement block built in the Scots Baronial style by architects Peddie and Kinnear between 1859 and 1861. The ground floor features shops and is constructed of ashlar stone, while the upper floors are made of lightly stugged squared and snecked sandstone with polished dressings. The building has a continuous cornice at the ground floor and a machicolated corbel course at the eaves.
The ground floor has roll-moulded segmental-arched openings and a timber-panelled door leading to the flats, topped with a plate glass fanlight. Above, the windows are set in roll-moulded stop-chamfered surrounds. The attic features five finialled, gabled segmental-arched dormer windows.
On the rear elevation, there is a machicolated corbel table at the attic floor, a crowstepped gable to the right, and finialled dormer-headed windows breaking the eaves to the left. The shops have plate glass, while the upper floors have four-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are corniced stacks with circular cans.
Local climate
47 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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