St Bernard's Education Centre, 21 Dean Park Street, Edinburgh

John Chesser, 1874-7. E extension: Robert Wilson, 1887. 2-storey, irregular-plan Renaissance style school. Coursed cream sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; dividing and eaves cornices; parapet with decorative coping details; architraved windows; decorative carvings to pediments to ground floor windows; buckle quoins; square bartizans to all angles with ogival lead roofs and finials.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 6-bay asymmetrical. Pedimented doorpiece to "Juveniles" entrance with round-arched doorway and decorative carvings; 2-leaf panelled door; plate glass fanlight; single window at 1st floor above. Advanced and gabled central bay; bipartite windows to ground and 1st floors with decorative carvings to pediments. Single windows to

both floors in bay to outer left and 3 bays to right of centre.

W ELEVATION: 4-bay. Advanced gabled bays to outer left and right (pediments removed from 1st floor windows; trefoil-headed

louvered ventilators set in gableheads. Single windows in bays to centre.

E ELEVATION: 3-storey and basement, 11-bay. 2 gabled bays recessed to outer left; carved "Education" roundel set in gablehead. 3 bays advanced and gabled to left of centre; playsheds at basement; single windows at principal and lst floors; bipartite windows to returns; bipartite window at 2nd floor. Former playsheds at basement and single windows to each floor in remaining bays. Single storey range of workshops advanced at centre.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-storey and basement advanced gabled bays to outer left. 2-storey and basement, gabled 3 bays to outer right. Single storey porch advanced at centre with "Infants" doorway to right return; 2 bays behind and above; attic addition. 12-pane sash and case windows. Grey slate roofs; polygonal ridge and wallhead stacks; roll- headed cans; polygonal ventilators; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: separate boys and girls stairs; open braced timber roofs to hall and attic classroom; ribbed plaster vaults to classroom; boarded dados and ventilator units to classrooms.

GATES, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY RAILINGS: cast-iron polygonal gatepiers; iron gates with ball-finials; railings in matching style.

JANITOR'S HOUSE: 2-storey, near rectangular-plan.

W (entrance) elevation: 2-bay; pedimented doorpiece in bay to outer left; replacement door; letterbox fanlight; single window at 1st floor above; 3-light canted window at ground in gabled bay to outer right; bipartite window at 1st floor above. S elevation: single windows to both floors in bay to outer right; pediment to 1st floor window; shouldered wallhead stack. N elevation: irregular distribution of windows. E elevation: blank. Variety of glazing patterns; grey slate roof, moulded cans.