Description

Peddie and Kinnear, Architects, 1859-61. 3-storey and attic 4-bay slightly convex Scots Baronial tenement with shops to ground floor. Squared and snecked lightly stugged sandstone with polished dressings (painted to ground). Moulded string courses to ground and 2nd floors. Roll-moulded surrounds to openings at ground floor; windows above in tabbed, stop-chamfered surrounds. Regularly fenestrated. 4 finialled gabled dormerheaded windows to attic. 2-leaf timber panelled storm door to shop to left.

Plate glass to ground floor; 2-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows above. Grey slates. Corniced stacks with circular cans.

Statement of Interest

A Group comprises 1-63 (Odd Nos) and 2-6 and 18-56 (Even Nos) Cockburn Street. Originally the upper floors of Nos 5-7 were bedroom wings of the Cockburn Hotel, Nos 1-3 Cockburn Street. Known briefly as Lord Cockburn Street, Cockburn Street was named after the doyen of conservationists, Lord Cockburn, who died in 1854. Cockburn Street was built by the High Street and Railway Station Access Company, under the Railway Station Acts of 1853 and 1860, to provide access to Waverley Station from the High Street. The serpentine curve of the street (anticipated in Thomas Hamilton's Victoria Street) gives a gradient of not more than 1:14; James Peddie and Henry J Wylie were the engineers. One of the aims of the design was to conceal the diagonal line of the street from Princes Street. A watercolour perspective drawing of the street by John Laing, published in THE BUILDER of 1860, shows how this was to be achieved. Stylistically, the intention was 'to preserve as far as possible the architectural style and antique character of the locality.'

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17801620

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