Scotland. Lothian. Edinburgh

Category: B Date of Listing 14-DEC-1970 Description: Early 19th century. 3-storey, 16-bay corner block of 4 tenements with shops at ground floor. Cream sandstone, front elevation with polished ashlar to ground floor (except SE elevation), stugged ashlar above with polished dressings, coursed and squared rubble to NW, and rear of Nos 29-36, coursed pink rubble to SE and rear of Nos 38-42. Rusticated ground floor; band course above ground floor; fluted frieze with paterae above 1st floor; dentilled eaves cornice. NE (QUEEN CHARLOTTE STREET) ELEVATION: outer 4 bays divided by shallow advanced pilasters with stylised acanthus capitals and paterae to frieze. Regular fenestration above ground floor. Shopfront to outer right 3-bay with plain bipartite windows and dentilled cornice turning corner. Doorway to common stair to left. 2 plain timber shopfronts to centre tenements with doorway to common stair and single window to left. Elaborate arcaded shopfront turning NE corner to left with round-arched bipartite display windows with slender colonnette mullions and foliate capitals, ornate corbels dividing continuous fascia, dentilled cornice and blocking course with round-headed and carved dies and remains of decorative cast-iron brattishing, curved corner window and recessed doorway. 7 rectangular dormers, some bi-, some tripartite, mostly with piended roofs. SE (CONSTITUTION STREET) ELEVATION: 4-bay; deep-set round-arched keystoned doorway to left of centre; window to outer left bay; round-arched shopfront (see above) to right bays. Single windows to 1st and 2nd floor. Nepus gable to centre with single windows and apex stack. Rectangular dormer to left. NW ELEVATION: gabled with broad apex stack; 2 bipartite windows to left; corniced and consoled doorway and single window to right; single windows to outer bays (left blocked) at 1st and 2nd floor. SW (REAR) ELEVATION: projecting curved stairwells. Timber sash and case windows, 12-pane and plate glass glazing; grey slate piend and platform roof with lead flashings; 2 apex stacks (see above), coped mutual stacks. INTERIOR: not seen 1993. References: Shown on Kirkwood 'Edinburgh & Environs' 1817.

60 CONSTITUTION STREET Category: B Date of Listing 14-DEC-1970 Description: Early 19th century. 3-storey 5-bay former bank with classical details. Cream sandstone, ashlar front, stugged ashlar to side elevation, coursed and squared rubble to rear. Base course; rusticated ground floor; band course above ground floor with delicate foliate Vitruvian scroll ornament; 1st floor cill course; blind balustrades as aprons to 1st floor windows; architraved windows to 1st and 2nd floor; 1st floor windows corniced with honeysuckle carving to frieze; dentilled eaves cornice with blocking course. E (FRONT) ELEVATION: pilastered ashlar closed Roman Doric porch to centre with balustraded parapet and single windows on return, 2-leaf panelled door with rectangular plate glass fanlight; door to common stair to outer left, panelled door with rectangular plate glass fanlight. Regular fenestration. W (REAR) ELEVATION: centre bay advanced with round-arched stair window; single windows to outer bays. N (MARITIME LANE) ELEVATION: 3-bay; single barred windows at ground floor; 1st and 2nd floor windows blocked-up except centre window at 2nd floor; wallhead slightly raised between tall wallhead stacks. Timber sash and case windows with plate glass or 4-pane glazing, 2nd floor windows with timber casements, small-pane glazing to rear. Slate piend and platform roof; 2 wallhead stacks to N (see above), 2 to S. Moulded eaves gutter, recessed downpipe channel in NE angle with ornamental gutterhead. INTERIOR: vestibule with ornate cornices, round-arched inner door with mask keystone, compartmental ceiling at ground floor with ornate cornices. References: Shown on Kirkwood, 'Edinburgh and Environs' 1817 and Thomson's 'Plan of Leith and Environs' 1827. Gifford et al, EDINBURGH (1984), p496.

HISTORIC SCOTLAND EDINBURGH, CITY OF COUNCIL Information Supplementary to the Statutory List (This information has no legal significance) EDINBURGH BURGH STATUTORY LIST HB Number 26769 Item Number: 4 U BERNARD STREET, ROBERT BURNS STATUE Group with Items: Map sheet: Category: B Group Category: Date of Listing 12-DEC-1974 Description: David Watson Stevenson, 1898. Bronze pedestrian statue of Robert Burns. Octagonal red granite and red sandstone plinth; drum pedestal with carved scrolls and 4 bronze bas relief panels (signed D W Stevenson) with scenes from Burns' work presented by different Sculptors. References: Notes: The statue was cast by J W Singer & Sons and erected in 1898 by the Leith Burns Club. Group with Nos 1-31, 2-18 Bernard Street, 29-43 Constitution Street.

HISTORIC SCOTLAND EDINBURGH, CITY OF COUNCIL Information Supplementary to the Statutory List (This information has no legal significance) EDINBURGH BURGH STATUTORY LIST HB Number 26769 Item Number: 4 U BERNARD STREET, ROBERT BURNS STATUE Group with Items: Map sheet: Category: B Group Category: Date of Listing 12-DEC-1974 Description: David Watson Stevenson, 1898. Bronze pedestrian statue of Robert Burns. Octagonal red granite and red sandstone plinth; drum pedestal with carved scrolls and 4 bronze bas relief panels (signed D W Stevenson) with scenes from Burns' work presented by different Sculptors. References: Notes: The statue was cast by J W Singer & Sons and erected in 1898 by the Leith Burns Club. Group with Nos 1-31, 2-18 Bernard Street, 29-43 Constitution Street.

29-31A (ODD NOS) AND 35 CONSTITUTION STREET AND 9 BALTIC STREET, FORMER CORN EXCHANGE Group with Items: Map sheet: Category: A Group Category: Date of Listing 14-DEC-1970 Description: Peddie & Kinnear, dated 1861, frieze carving John Rhind. 2-storey corner office block with engaged octagonal entrance tower and Renaissance details, large rectangular-plan hall to N. Cream sandstone, polished ashlar with squared and snecked stugged rubble to rear and side. Base course; carved frieze of vine leaves and corbelled string course above ground floor; frieze of scrolled vine leaves to deep modillioned eaves cornice; windows in recessed panels; ground floor openings with moulded stilted segmental arches and impost course, ornamental iron grilles to aprons; 1st floor windows with moulded round-arched heads and impost course. ENTRANCE TOWER: engaged octagonal 3-stage entrance tower; 1st and 2nd stage detailed as above with doorway to centre, 2-leaf panelled door and plate glass fanlight, consoled cornice blank arches to outer bays. Top stage with round-arched bipartite windows with foliate capitals set in recessed rectangular panels to 4 sides; paterae frieze and bracketted eaves cornice; classical octagonal domed metal roof with wallhead stack to rear and octagonal domed bellcote with round-arched openings and ornate weathervane. NW (CONSTITUTION STREET) ELEVATION: 4-bay office block to right with arcaded openings, secondary doorway to outer right. 5-bay hall to left with carved frieze (John Rhind) of putti in grain-related activities and eaves cornice; moulded, round-arched and keystoned openings. Centre bay with tall doorway with elongated fanlight; 2 bays to right with tall windows with bracketted cills; 2 bays to left with large rectangular architraved and corniced doorways with boarded doors and small semi-circular fanlights above cornice, cast-iron pal stones. S (BALTIC STREET) ELEVATION: 7-bay (excluding corner tower) with arcaded openings; secondary doorways with 2-pane fanlights to outer right and centre bays. Single storey screen wall to outer right with 2 segmental arches, to right blocked with blank segmental-arched panel. W ELEVATION: blank with blocked windows to left and broad rendered wallhead stack to office block. 4-pane timber sash and case arched windows. Slate roof with metal flashings to office block; felt roof to hall. 2 wallhead stacks (see above), apex stack to gable end of hall, large transverse stack. INTERIOR: vestibule and stair hall with red and white marble floor and dado; newel posts with timber lighthouses as lamps; 2 windows flanking doorway with non-figurative stained glass (circa 1900); ground floor toilets with original tiling; large skylight to round offices at 1st floor. Exchange hall to rear blind round arches to side bays and semi-circular gable elevations; roof supported by arched timber braces with pierced and carved spandrels painted gold, red and blue. References: THE SCOTSMAN, Oct 17 1860. BUILDING NEWS, Sept 28 1860. THE BUILDER, Nov 8 1862. Gifford et al, EDINBURGH (1984), pp469-70. Notes: Group with 37-43 Constitution Street, 2-18, 1-31 Bernard Street and Robert Burns Statue.