40 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. 3 related planning applications.
40 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- solemn-ember-poplar
- 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
- Address
- 40 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1PB
- OS grid reference
- NT 258 736
- Coordinates
- 55.95046, -3.18913
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
40 Cockburn Street in Edinburgh is a three-storey and attic tenement block designed by architects Peddie and Kinnear between 1859 and 1861. The building features a symmetrical façade with shops on the ground floor and two crow-stepped gables topped with apex stacks and scrolled skewputts. It is constructed from squared and snecked lightly stugged ashlar with polished dressings, although the shopfronts are painted.
A continuous cornice runs along the ground floor, and a string course rises over blank panels to the second floor. The windows are framed in stop-chamfered surrounds, with a timber-panelled door featuring a plate glass fanlight in a moulded, shouldered surround. The first floor has two bipartite windows, while the second floor boasts four segmental-headed windows and small windows with projecting cills on the gables. At the centre of the attic, there is a timber dormer with a finialled, swept roof.
The windows are fitted with four-pane glazing in timber sash and case style, and the roof is covered with grey slates.
Local climate
40 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 — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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