59, 61, 63 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh

Peddie and Kinnear, Architects, 1859-61. Asymmetrical 3-storey and attic Scots Baronial tenement block with crowstepped gabled block to Cockburn Street and spired roof to circular tower to Fleshmarket Close; shops to ground floor. Squared and snecked stugged sandstone with polished dressings. Continuous cornice to ground floor; stepped corbel courses beneath 2nd floor and attic windows (machicolated to attic floor of tower). Cantilevered gabled hood to 2-leaf timber door at No 59 (former hotel entrance). Stone-mullioned bipartite windows and date plaque (1864) to 1st floor; basket-arched windows to 2nd and attic floors; inscribed plaque (restored 1992) to 2nd floor. Fluted wallhead stack between asymmetrical crowstepped gable to left and fish-scale slated conical roof with finialled, pedimented dormers and weathervane to right.

Predominantly 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Corniced wallhead stacks.