2 St Bernard's Crescent, Edinburgh

18 Carlton Street in Edinburgh is a prominent three-storey tenement building with a basement and attic, designed in a plain classical style by James Milne, and begun in 1824. The building features giant order anta pilasters on the north elevation facing St Bernard's Crescent and is constructed from sandstone ashlar, with a rusticated ground floor on the east elevation facing Carlton Street. The entrance has platts that oversail the basement area recess to the street. It has a banded base course, a moulded cornice at the first floor with a plain entablature, and corniced eaves topped with a narrow blocking course. The doorways are inset, featuring four-panel timber doors and rectangular fanlights.

On the north elevation, there are four bays with giant order anta pilasters and a narrow banded cill course at the first floor, along with pilastered dividing bays at the attic. The east elevation has five bays, with two blind bays on the outer right at the first floor, and a banded cill course at the first floor. The windows at the first floor are moulded architraved and corniced.

The southwest (rear) elevation is made of coursed rubble with tooled ashlar rybats, lintels, and cills, and features regular fenestration. The building predominantly has a 12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows, with a four-over-12-pane glazing pattern at the first floor of the north elevation and a six-over-nine-pane glazing pattern at the first floor of the east elevation. The roof is double-pitched and covered with grey slates, and there are corniced ashlar ridge stacks with some clay cans. The basement area recess to the street is edged with cast-iron railings that incorporate decorative lamp standards with large bowl shades.

The interior, as seen in 2010, features a decorative classical scheme characterized by intricate plasterwork, large drawing rooms, and stone stairs with well-detailed balustrades topped by large cupolas, although some later subdivision has occurred.