20, 22 Bernard Street, Edinburgh

24 and 26 Bernard Street in Edinburgh are tenement buildings dating from around 1800, with No 24 being raised in height in 1879 and No 26 designed by James Simpson in 1880. The buildings are three stories tall with an attic and feature ten bays, twin-bows, and a rear addition. They are constructed from grey sandstone, with tooled ashlar and polished dressings on the front, coursed and squared rubble on the sides, and pink coursed rubble at the rear. Key architectural features include a base course, a cill band course at the first floor, an eaves cornice, and doorways that are architraved and corniced, complete with panelled doors and rectangular plate glass fanlights.

The front elevation has bowed projections of three bays, with single windows on the outer left and right, the right side topped with a half-conical roof. There are two doorways to the left of center, one of which was inserted in 1880, and single windows above. The bay to the left of center has single windows, while the next bay features a doorway at ground level and single windows above. No 24 has been raised to four stories, with single windows on the third floor.

The rear elevation features single windows, and No 22 has a circular stairwell with a catslide roof and a doorway on the flank, along with a rectangular dormer that has a piended roof. No 24 has been raised to four stories, and there is a lower two-story flat-roofed link with the addition to the rear of No 26, designed by James Simpson in 1880.

The northwest elevation is gabled with an apex stack and has single windows in the center bay. The southeast elevation is also gabled with an apex stack, featuring single windows at ground level and in the center bay.

No 26, designed by James Simpson in 1880, is a two-story, three-bay outbuilding with a segmental-arched pend and bipartite windows. The buildings have timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, although there is a replacement window in the rear dormer. The roofs are slate with metal flashings, and there are Velux rooflights on No 22, while No 24 has a flat roof and two apex stacks, including a mutual stack.

The interior was not seen in 1993.