Nos. 30-36 (Even), Bernard Street, Leith, Edinburgh

EDINBURGH, CITY OF COUNCIL


HB Number 26959

Item Number: 19 U

30-36 BERNARD STREET
Group with Items:


Category: B


Date of Listing 14-DEC-1970


Description:
Early 19th century. 3-storey and attic 6-bay classically detailed tenement. Grey sandstone, tooled ashlar with polished dressings, coursed and squared rubble with cherry-caulking to rear. Base course; band course above ground floor; band eaves course; cornice and blocking course; raised quoins; architraved windows, corniced at 1st floor.
S (BERNARD STREET) ELEVATION: 4 architraved and corniced doorways to centre bays with 2-leaf panelled doors and rectangular fanlights with radial astragals (reinstated); single windows to outer bays. Single windows to 1st and 2nd floor above. Cast-iron post box set in wall to outer right. 2 canted tripartite dormers with half-piend roofs.
E (TIMBERBUSH) ELEVATION: gabled with tall, broad corniced apex stack; 3-bay; windows to centre and left bay; 2 small windows to gablehead.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: single windows, 2 canted tripartite dormers to centre, rectangular dormers flanking. Timber sash and case windows, 12-pane to front and sides, some plate glass to rear. Slate roof with metal flashings; 1 apex stack (see above), 1 tall corniced transverse stack.
INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

References:
Shown on Kirkwood 'Edinburgh & Environs' 1817.