1 St Bernard's Crescent, Edinburgh

1 St Bernard's Crescent in Edinburgh is a prominent four-storey and basement plain classical corner tenement built between 1880 and 1882. The building features a shallow single bay bowed corner and is constructed from sandstone ashlar. The entrance has platts that oversail the basement area recess leading to the street. It includes a banded base course, a band course at the ground floor, and banded and bracketed cill courses at the first, second, and third floors, topped with a corniced eaves course. The corniced doorways are supported by large foliate console brackets, and they have panelled timber doors with rectangular fanlights. The windows are moulded architraved, corniced at the first floor, and there is a bi-partite window with a sandstone mullion on the right side of the south elevation facing Leslie Place.

On the north (rear) elevation, the building is made of coursed squared sandstone rubble, with tooled ashlar rybats, lintels, and cills, featuring roughly regular fenestration. The windows predominantly consist of plate glass in timber sash and case frames. The roof is pitched and covered with grey slates, and there is a corniced ashlar wallhead stack with some octagonal clay cans. The building also has cast-iron rainwater goods and cast-iron railings that edge the basement area recess to the street.

Inside, as seen in 2010, there is a stone staircase with a well-detailed cast iron balustrade and a timber handrail, topped by a large cupola. The building has undergone a later conversion to flats, which included some subdivision.