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HISTORIC SCOTLAND EDINBURGH, CITY OF COUNCIL STATUTORY LIST HB Number 27890 Item Number: 80 R 36 AND 37 SHORE AND 59-61 (ODD NOS) BERNARD STREET Group with Items: Map sheet: Category: A Date of Listing 14-DEC-1970 Description: Early 18th century, possibly incorporating earlier remains; restored Robert Hurd & Partners, 1972-8. 2-storey and attic, gabled corner tenement, public house at ground floor, and lower 4-bay tenement with central pend to Bernard Street. Harled with sandstone margins (dressings to windows painted). Ashlar strip quoins; pub front with regular rectangular openings divided by shallow pilasters, dentilled cornice, chamfered and corbelled N corner. NW (SHORE) ELEVATION: 6-bay; public house at ground floor; 2 centre bays raised in nepus gable with windows flanking flue line, single windows to remaining bays. 2 single catslide dormers flanking gable. To outer right remains of No 37 Shore, single storey wall with corniced ashlar doorway (now blocked), lugged roll-moulded architrave, broken scrolled swan-neck pediment enclosing elaborately carved cartouche, dated 1711 with entwined monogram. NE (BERNARD STREET) ELEVATION: broad gabled elevation of Shore building to right, wallhead raised with broad apex stack; single windows to 1st and 2nd floor, 2 small windows to 3rd floor. 4-bay tenement to left; round-arched roll-moulded pend to centre; 2 window flanking to right; small shop window and very low corniced doorway to left; remains to forestair to outer left. Single windows at 1st and 2nd floor, irregularly placed; chamfered reveals to small 1st floor window to outer right. 2 paired catslide dormers. SW ELEVATION: gabled with irregularly raised wallhead and broad apex stack; remains of openings and fire places (bolection moulded at 3rd floor level). S (REAR) ELEVATION: single windows; paired and single catslide dormers. 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Dark slate roof with metal ridge, steeply pitched to Nos 59-65 Bernard Street; 3 apex stacks (see above). Ashlar skews and scrolled skewputts. INTERIOR: not seen 1993. References: RCAHMS INVENTORY 225,249. Gifford et al, EDINBURGH (1984), p472. Dean of Guild 30 /11/1909 (refurbished and re-slated). Notes: The above are among the few early buildings in Leith to have survived. They occupy (and formed part of) the site of the so-called King's Wark, an enclosed area established in the 15th century by James I, designed to serve as royal residence, store-house and armoury.

37-43 (ODD NOS) CONSTITUTION STREET AND 49 ASSEMBLY STREET, EXCHANGE BUILDINGS Group with Items: Category: A Date of Listing 14-DEC-1970 Description: TB (Thomas Brown '), 1809-10; earlier Assembly Rooms, 1783. Large 3-storey 13-bay classical exchange buildings, Assembly Rooms to N. Cream sandstone, polished ashlar basement, tooled ashlar above with polished dressings to front and N elevation, stugged ashlar to N; Assembly Rooms coursed and squared rubble with polished ashlar dressings to NW, coursed rubble to SE. Base course; rusticated ground floor with impost course; band course above ground floor; cill course at 1st floor; band cill course at 2nd floor; eaves cornice with blocking course; segmental-arched tripartite doorways with Doric columns and segmental-arched fanlights (No 37 with radial astragals); round-arched windows at ground floor flanking doorways set in recessed round-arched ashlar panels; smaller rectangular windows at 2nd floor. NW (CONSTITUTION STREET) ELEVATION: 3 centre bays advanced at ground floor, doorway to centre with windows flanking; giant Ionic columns carrying blank frieze and pediment with clock; at 1st floor tripartite window at centre with segmental-arched ashlar fanlight and apron of blind balustrade, 2 single windows under ashlar panels with gilded inscription `Exchange Buildings' flanking. 2 bays to left with secondary doorway to left and single windows to remaining bays. 2 bays to right of centre bays with single windows. Slightly advanced 3-bay end pavilions with advanced centre bay bearing tablet and doorway at ground floor; architraved, consoled and pedimented window at 1st floor. Single windows to outer bays, at 1st floor architraved, consoled and corniced. NE (ASSEMBLY STREET) ELEVATION: single bay return of Constitution Street building detailed as pavilions with single windows. 5-bay 2-storey former Assembly Rooms (1783) to left; 3-bay hall with tall single windows adjoining Exchange Buildings; 2 slightly advanced quoined bays to left with plain doorway to right, rectangular fanlight with radial astragals, single window at 1st floor above; single windows to left bay. SE (REAR) ELEVATION: single windows to earlier Assembly Rooms. Exchange buildings with projections and additions. SW ELEVATION: 3-bay; band course above ground floor; single windows at ground floor, some with relieving arches. Gabled centre bay slightly advanced with skewline taken into corniced apex stack, at 1st floor tall tripartite window with broad panelled mullions and recessed ashlar aprons, round-arched fanlight (now blocked/relieving arch over ('); ashlar panel above. Single windows to outer bays (blocked at 2nd floor). Timber sash and case windows, mostly 12-pane or multi-pane glazing. Lead roof with metal flashings; 1 apex stack (see above), wallhead and transverse stacks. INTERIOR: large ballroom (No 43) much altered; Adamesque plaster ceiling of earlier Assembly rooms now obscured by false ceiling. References: Dean of Guild 2/10/1809. Gifford et al, EDINBURGH (1984), p464. Notes: The exchange buildings were built by subscription as a meeting place for merchants, they included reading rooms, assembly rooms and a post office. Group with Nos 2-18, 1-31 Bernard Street, 29-35 Constit

EDINBURGH, CITY OF COUNCIL STATUTORY LIST HB Number 26809 Item Number: 7 U 25 BERNARD STREET AND 24 AND 25 MARITIME STREET WITH RAILINGS Group with Items: Category: A Date of Listing 14-DEC-1970 Description: Probably John Paterson, 1804-6. 2-storey 5-bay domed bank with lower 2-storey rear wings. Cream sandstone, stugged ashlar with polished dressings, to front and sides, coursed and squared rubble to rear, coursed rubble to rear and sides of rear wings. Base course; cill course at ground floor; band cill course at 1st floor; broad frieze, dentilled eaves cornice with blocking course; bays divided by Ionic pilasters (engaged columns to domed section), paired angle pilasters; aprons of blind balustrading and architraves to ground floor windows. NW (BERNARD STREET) ELEVATION: 3 centre bays bowed with domed roof; architraved, consoled and pedimented doorway at centre with panelled door and radial iron fanlight; single window at 1st floor above. Single windows to flanking bays. Outer bays with single windows, at ground floor architraved, consoled and pedimented. SE (MARITIME STREET) ELEVATION: 3-bay main block to right with advanced pedimented bay to centre. Architraved windows, at ground floor consoled and corniced. Single storey gig house to outer left with broad round-arched carriage doorway and secondary door with small window over; blank ashlar panel above. NW (BANK STREET): 3-bay main block with single windows at ground and 1st floor detailed as above. Lower 2-storey 3-bay rear wing to outer right; slightly advanced pedimented bay to centre with paired windows; single windows to outer bays, some blocked. SW (REAR) ELEVATION: 2 single storey projecting rear wings to either sides forming narrow courtyard; square projection with wallhead stack to right; bowed centre section partly obscured; single windows. Timber sash and case windows, 12-pane and 6-pane glazing. Piend and platform slate roof with central cupola; metal flashings, copper dome (formerly lead); 2 central stacks, 1 wallhead stack (see above). INTERIOR: circular vestibule with round-arched niches; oval telling hall with black and white marble floor, domed ceiling and oval cupola; Vitruvian scroll cornice to dome; ornate Adamesque frieze with urns, griffons, etc, still-leaf acanthus cornice and Vitruvian scroll border; 7 architraved doorways with oval panelling leading off. RAILINGS: low boundary wall with plain modern railings with inset anthemion motifs. References: RCAHMS INVENTORY No 227. Dean of Guild 12/4/1804. Gifford et al, EDINBURGH (1984), p470. Notes: Originally built for Leith Bank (now defunct). The Dean of Guild drawings are unsigned but Paterson appears in connection with the petition. Furthermore, the design of the facade is almost identical to Paterson's Montgomerie House, Ayrshire (now demolished). Group with listings for Nos 1-23, 27-31 Bernard Street, 2-18 Bernard Street, 29-43 Constitution Street and Robert Burns Statue.

EDINBURGH, CITY OF COUNCIL STATUTORY LIST HB Number 26809 Item Number: 7 U 25 BERNARD STREET AND 24 AND 25 MARITIME STREET WITH RAILINGS Group with Items: Category: A Date of Listing 14-DEC-1970 Description: Probably John Paterson, 1804-6. 2-storey 5-bay domed bank with lower 2-storey rear wings. Cream sandstone, stugged ashlar with polished dressings, to front and sides, coursed and squared rubble to rear, coursed rubble to rear and sides of rear wings. Base course; cill course at ground floor; band cill course at 1st floor; broad frieze, dentilled eaves cornice with blocking course; bays divided by Ionic pilasters (engaged columns to domed section), paired angle pilasters; aprons of blind balustrading and architraves to ground floor windows. NW (BERNARD STREET) ELEVATION: 3 centre bays bowed with domed roof; architraved, consoled and pedimented doorway at centre with panelled door and radial iron fanlight; single window at 1st floor above. Single windows to flanking bays. Outer bays with single windows, at ground floor architraved, consoled and pedimented. SE (MARITIME STREET) ELEVATION: 3-bay main block to right with advanced pedimented bay to centre. Architraved windows, at ground floor consoled and corniced. Single storey gig house to outer left with broad round-arched carriage doorway and secondary door with small window over; blank ashlar panel above. NW (BANK STREET): 3-bay main block with single windows at ground and 1st floor detailed as above. Lower 2-storey 3-bay rear wing to outer right; slightly advanced pedimented bay to centre with paired windows; single windows to outer bays, some blocked. SW (REAR) ELEVATION: 2 single storey projecting rear wings to either sides forming narrow courtyard; square projection with wallhead stack to right; bowed centre section partly obscured; single windows. Timber sash and case windows, 12-pane and 6-pane glazing. Piend and platform slate roof with central cupola; metal flashings, copper dome (formerly lead); 2 central stacks, 1 wallhead stack (see above). INTERIOR: circular vestibule with round-arched niches; oval telling hall with black and white marble floor, domed ceiling and oval cupola; Vitruvian scroll cornice to dome; ornate Adamesque frieze with urns, griffons, etc, still-leaf acanthus cornice and Vitruvian scroll border; 7 architraved doorways with oval panelling leading off. RAILINGS: low boundary wall with plain modern railings with inset anthemion motifs. References: RCAHMS INVENTORY No 227. Dean of Guild 12/4/1804. Gifford et al, EDINBURGH (1984), p470. Notes: Originally built for Leith Bank (now defunct). The Dean of Guild drawings are unsigned but Paterson appears in connection with the petition. Furthermore, the design of the facade is almost identical to Paterson's Montgomerie House, Ayrshire (now demolished). Group with listings for Nos 1-23, 27-31 Bernard Street, 2-18 Bernard Street, 29-43 Constitution Street and Robert Burns Statue.

EDINBURGH, CITY OF COUNCIL STATUTORY LIST HB Number 26809 Item Number: 7 U 25 BERNARD STREET AND 24 AND 25 MARITIME STREET WITH RAILINGS Group with Items: Category: A Date of Listing 14-DEC-1970 Description: Probably John Paterson, 1804-6. 2-storey 5-bay domed bank with lower 2-storey rear wings. Cream sandstone, stugged ashlar with polished dressings, to front and sides, coursed and squared rubble to rear, coursed rubble to rear and sides of rear wings. Base course; cill course at ground floor; band cill course at 1st floor; broad frieze, dentilled eaves cornice with blocking course; bays divided by Ionic pilasters (engaged columns to domed section), paired angle pilasters; aprons of blind balustrading and architraves to ground floor windows. NW (BERNARD STREET) ELEVATION: 3 centre bays bowed with domed roof; architraved, consoled and pedimented doorway at centre with panelled door and radial iron fanlight; single window at 1st floor above. Single windows to flanking bays. Outer bays with single windows, at ground floor architraved, consoled and pedimented. SE (MARITIME STREET) ELEVATION: 3-bay main block to right with advanced pedimented bay to centre. Architraved windows, at ground floor consoled and corniced. Single storey gig house to outer left with broad round-arched carriage doorway and secondary door with small window over; blank ashlar panel above. NW (BANK STREET): 3-bay main block with single windows at ground and 1st floor detailed as above. Lower 2-storey 3-bay rear wing to outer right; slightly advanced pedimented bay to centre with paired windows; single windows to outer bays, some blocked. SW (REAR) ELEVATION: 2 single storey projecting rear wings to either sides forming narrow courtyard; square projection with wallhead stack to right; bowed centre section partly obscured; single windows. Timber sash and case windows, 12-pane and 6-pane glazing. Piend and platform slate roof with central cupola; metal flashings, copper dome (formerly lead); 2 central stacks, 1 wallhead stack (see above). INTERIOR: circular vestibule with round-arched niches; oval telling hall with black and white marble floor, domed ceiling and oval cupola; Vitruvian scroll cornice to dome; ornate Adamesque frieze with urns, griffons, etc, still-leaf acanthus cornice and Vitruvian scroll border; 7 architraved doorways with oval panelling leading off. RAILINGS: low boundary wall with plain modern railings with inset anthemion motifs. References: RCAHMS INVENTORY No 227. Dean of Guild 12/4/1804. Gifford et al, EDINBURGH (1984), p470. Notes: Originally built for Leith Bank (now defunct). The Dean of Guild drawings are unsigned but Paterson appears in connection with the petition. Furthermore, the design of the facade is almost identical to Paterson's Montgomerie House, Ayrshire (now demolished). Group with listings for Nos 1-23, 27-31 Bernard Street, 2-18 Bernard Street, 29-43 Constitution Street and Robert Burns Statue.

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.

STATUTORY LIST HB Number 26947 Item Number: 18 U 28 BERNARD STREET AND 47, 47A TIMBERBUSH Category: B Date of Listing 14-DEC-1970 Description: James Simpson, 1871. 3-storey 2-bay Italianate bank building. Cream sandstone, polished ashlar front, ashlar to ground floor of NW elevation, squared and snecked stugged rubble above. Base course; dentilled cornice above ground floor; moulded cill course at 2nd floor; deeply corbelled and dentilled eaves cornice; architraved windows; bracketted cills at 2nd floor; round-arched openings at ground floor. SW (BERNARD STREET) ELEVATION: doorway to left with polished red granite Ionic columns to porch supporting entablature; doorway with masque-carved head keystone and polished red granite Corinthian nook-shafts, panelled door and semi-circular plate glass fanlight; single window at 1st floor with consoled dentilled pediment; single window at 2nd floor. 2-storey canted window divided by pilasters to right bay, panelled aprons at 1st floor, dentilled cornice; bipartite window at 2nd floor. NW (TIMBERBUSH) ELEVATION: 6-bay; slightly angled bay to outer right detailed as front elevation with single windows, at 1st floor with consoled dentilled pediment; wallhead stack. Consoled and corniced doorway to left of centre, 2-leaf panelled door and barred semi- circular fanlight; small secondary door flanking to left. Single windows to remaining bays. Canted tripartite dormer. SE ELEVATION: irregular single windows; barred round-arched windows. Timber sash and case windows, mostly plate glass glazing, some 4-pane windows to side. Half-piend slate roof with metal flashings. 1 wallhead stack (see above), 1 transverse and apex stack to rear. Moulded eaves gutter and gutterheads. INTERIOR: compartmental ceiling with heavy dentilled cornices to main telling hall. References: F H Groome, ORDNANCE GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND, vol IV (1895), p484. Gifford et al, EDINBURGH (1984), p471. Notes: Built as Union Bank.

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.