Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

37 BERNARD STREETLB26847

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
12/12/1974
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 27173 76500
Coordinates
327173, 676500

Description

1873. 3-storey and attic irregular-plan Baronial corner office block on acute corner site. Cream sandstone, polished ashlar to ground floor of front elevation, squared and snecked stugged rubble above with polished dressings, stugged dressings to rear. Base course; moulded string course above tall ground floor; moulded impost course at 1st floor rising to hoodmoulds over openings; shouldered-arched stop- chamfered openings at ground and 1st floor; 2nd floor windows to NE breaking eaves with finialled gableheads and kneelers; ashlar mullions.

NE (BERNARD STREET) ELEVATION: 5-bay including curved corner bay to outer right; centre bay blank with wallhead stack linked to roof (rendered) and corbelled above 1st floor over machicolations, blank panel with hoodmould stepping over at 2nd floor. Bays to left and right of centre with bipartite windows at ground and 1st floor; windows at 2nd floor. Tall entrance doorway to outer left with hoodmould stepping over blank panel, label-stops with masks of Bacchus and Neptune, string course stepping over hoodmould; bipartite window at 1st floor with string course stepping over blank panel; window at 2nd floor; gabled bargeboarded dormer with kingpost and finial. Curved corner bay to outer right with ground floor slightly recessed, bipartite windows at ground and 1st floor; 2nd floor corbelled to square with bipartite window, blank panel and hoodmould stepping over and small shouldered-arch window in gablehead.

NW (CARPET LANE) ELEVATION: 4-bay (excluding curved corner bay); bay to right of centre with bipartite windows to ground and 1st floor; single window at 2nd floor. Bay to outer right with single windows and small bipartite window at intermediary floor above 1st floor. Bay to left of centre blank with tall and broad shouldered wallhead stack linked to roof (rendered) and corbelled above 1st floor, small windows in gablehead. Bay to outer left as bay to right of centre.

Timber sash and case windows, mostly plate glass glazing, some 4- and 9-pane windows to rear, lower sashes of ground floor windows with etched glass. Slate roof with metal flashings; 2 wallhead stacks (see above). Moulded eaves gutter.

INTERIOR: offices at ground floor with heavily dentilled cornices, vestibule and stairway altered.

Statement of Special Interest

Built as Leith Merchants?s Club.

References

Bibliography

Gifford et al, EDINBURGH (1984), p471.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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