46-48 Bernard Street, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement.

46-48 Bernard Street, Leith, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
first-chapel-ochre
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
Tenement
Address
46-48 Bernard Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 6PR
OS grid reference
NT 271 765
Coordinates
55.97618, -3.16877
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

46-48 Bernard Street is a tenement building from the earlier 19th century that was remodeled by Kinnear and Peddie in 1887. It is three stories high with an attic and features three bays. The building is constructed from grey and cream sandstone, with a polished ashlar ground floor and dressed ashlar above, accented with polished dressings. The design includes a base course, shallow pilasters dividing the ground floor bays, a band course above the ground floor, and cill band courses at the first and second floors. It has a tall parapet with architraved windows; the center window on the first floor has a pediment, while the outer windows are corniced.

On the southwest (front) elevation, there is an architraved doorway on the outer right, flanked by shallow Ionic pilasters and topped with an open pediment. This doorway features a two-leaf panelled door. To the right, there is a bipartite transomed window, also from 1887. To the left of the center, there is another doorway with a two-leaf panelled door and a fanlight with radial astragals, along with a window on the outer left. The fenestration is regular throughout. The parapet has a corniced and panelled tablet at the center, with panelled dies terminating the ends.

The building also has two rectangular flat-roofed dormers. The windows are plate glass timber sash and case, with small-pane windows in the dormers. The roof is slate with metal flashings and features corniced mutual stacks. The interior was not seen in 1993.

Local climate

46-48 Bernard Street, Leith, 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.

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