59, 61, 63 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh

59, 61, and 63 Cockburn Street in Edinburgh is a three-storey and attic tenement block designed by architects Peddie and Kinnear between 1859 and 1861, showcasing an asymmetrical Scots Baronial style. The building features a crow-stepped gabled block facing Cockburn Street and a circular tower with a spired roof overlooking Fleshmarket Close. The ground floor accommodates shops, and the structure is constructed from squared and snecked stugged sandstone with polished dressings.

Notable architectural elements include a continuous cornice at the ground floor, stepped corbel courses beneath the second floor and attic windows, and machicolation at the attic floor of the tower. The entrance at No 59, which was formerly a hotel, has a cantilevered gabled hood over a two-leaf timber door. The first floor showcases stone-mullioned bipartite windows and a date plaque from 1864, while the second and attic floors feature basket-arched windows and an inscribed plaque that was restored in 1992.

The building also has a fluted wallhead stack positioned between the asymmetrical crow-stepped gable on the left and a fish-scale slated conical roof with finialled, pedimented dormers and a weathervane on the right. The windows predominantly have four-pane glazing in timber sash and case style, and the roof is covered with grey slates, complemented by corniced wallhead stacks.