Description

1880-1882. Prominent 4-storey and basement plain classical corner tenement with shallow single bay bowed corner. Sandstone ashlar. Entrance platts oversailing basement area recess to street. Banded base course; band course at ground floor; banded and bracketed cill courses at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors; corniced eaves course. Corniced dorways with large foliate console brackets; panelled timber doors and rectangular fanlights. Moulded architraved windows, corniced at 1st floor; bi-partite window with sandstone mullion to right of S (Leslie Place) elevation.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: coursed squared sandstone rubble with tooled ashlar rybats, lintels and cills. Roughly regular fenestration.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Pitched roof; grey slates. Corniced ashlar wallhead stack with some octagonal clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Cast-iron railings edging basement area recess to street.

INTERIOR: (selection of interiors seen 2010) stone stairs with well-detailed cast iron balustrade and timber handrail, topped by large cupola. Later conversion to flats, including some subdivision.

Statement of Interest

1 St Bernard's Crescent is a good example of a later nineteenth century plain classical tenement block finishing off the earlier development of St Bernard's Crescent and using similar plain classical detailing. The street formed part of the development of the land of Sir Henry Raeburn, and 1 St Bernard's Crescent is characteristic of the later development of the area following the demolition of Deanhaugh House in 1880. This building is an integral part of Edinburgh's New Town, which is an outstanding example of classical urban planning that was influential throughout Britain and Europe.

Henry Raeburn was born in Stockbridge and acquired the house and grounds of Deanhaugh through marriage, before adding adjacent land at St Bernard's. He occupied St Bernard's House until his death in 1823 when it was demolished to accommodate the growing residential development of the estate, making space for the eastern side of Carlton Street. The land on which 1 St Bernard's Crescent is built was not developed until much later because the landowner, Count Leslie, remained in occupation of Deanhaugh House into the second half of the 19th century, effectively halting any further development in this immediate area.

(List description updated on re-survey 2012).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17807031

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