12, 14, 16, 18 Bernard Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Bank/office building. 2 related planning applications.
12, 14, 16, 18 Bernard Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- muffled-baluster-rook
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Bank/office building
- Address
- 12, 14, 16, 18 Bernard Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6PP
- OS grid reference
- NT 272 764
- Coordinates
- 55.97589, -3.16727
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12, 14, 16, 18 Bernard Street is a later 19th century, three-storey, six-bay bank and office building designed in the Italian palazzo style. The front facade is made of cream sandstone with polished ashlar, while the rear and sides are constructed from squared and snecked rubble. The building features a base course, and the ground floor is divided by broad shallow pilasters. Above the ground floor, there is a dentilled cornice and a guilloche frieze. The second floor has a moulded cill course, and the heavy fluted eaves cornice overhangs on deep brackets that alternate with deep-set moulded panels.
The ground floor openings are round-arched with moulded heads. The first-floor windows are architraved, featuring console-bracketed cornices and balustraded aprons. The second-floor windows have shouldered architraves and bracketed cills. The building also has stacks with bracketed cornices.
On the southwest (front) elevation, there are four bays to the right that are slightly advanced. The outer right features an architraved and consoled doorway with a pulvinated frieze that has stylised foliage carving, a panelled door, and a semi-circular plate glass fanlight. A modern door has been inserted into a window to the right of centre. The penultimate bay to the left has a broader keystoned opening, with the former pend now infilled as a window. There are single windows at the first and second floors above.
The northeast (rear) elevation has single windows and two bays to the right that are slightly advanced. There are round-arched stair windows with slender timber mullions on the outer left. A large, single-storey, flat-roofed modern addition is located at the rear.
The northwest elevation features two round-arched windows in the centre bay and a secondary doorway. There are two wallhead stacks, with the left stack being coped and rendered.
The building has timber sash and case windows, mostly with four panes (the lower sashes at the first floor are taller, while the ground floor and some rear windows have plate glass glazing). The roof is a combination of piend and platform styles, made of small roll-jointed lead sheets, and there are three wallhead stacks, including one transverse stack.
The interior was not seen in 1993.
Local climate
12, 14, 16, 18 Bernard Street, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- 10 Bernard Street, Edinburgh
- 20, 22 Bernard Street, Edinburgh
- 8 Bernard Street, Edinburgh
- 6 Bernard Street, Edinburgh
- 24, 26 Bernard Street, Edinburgh
- 4 Bernard Street, Edinburgh
- Union Bank, 28 Bernard Street, Leith, Edinburgh
- 2 Bernard Street And 28 Constitution Street, Edinburgh
- 23 Bernard Street, Edinburgh
- National Commercial Bank Of Scotland, 25 Bernard Street and 24, 25 Maritime Street, Edinburgh