30 St Bernard's Crescent, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Townhouse.

30 St Bernard's Crescent, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
pale-bronze-martin
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
Townhouse
Address
30 St Bernard's Crescent, Edinburgh, EH4 1NS
OS grid reference
NT 243 744
Coordinates
55.95717, -3.2137
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

30 St Bernard's Crescent in Edinburgh is a pair of three-storey and basement townhouses designed by John Webster between 1879 and 1882. These two-bay houses feature prominent full-height canted bays on the left side, situated on a slope that descends to the east. The exterior is constructed from sandstone ashlar, with a channelled finish at the ground floor. The entrance platts extend over the basement area recess facing the street. The design includes a banded base course, a band course at the first and second floors, and corniced eaves. The doorways are inset, with panelled timber doors and plain rectangular fanlights.

The south (rear) elevation is made of coursed squared rubble, accented with tooled ashlar rybats, lintels, and cills, featuring roughly regular fenestration. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass. The pitched roof is covered in gray slates and has corniced ashlar ridge stacks with some clay cans. The property also has cast-iron rainwater goods and cast-iron railings that edge the basement area recess, which includes decorative lamp standards with large bowl shades.

Inside, as seen in a selection of interiors in 2010, there is a decorative classical scheme characterized by intricate plasterwork, large drawing rooms, and stone stairs with well-detailed balustrades topped by large cupolas. Some areas have been converted into flats.

Local climate

30 St Bernard's Crescent, 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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