Brewhouse Block, Drybrough's Brewery, Duddingston Road West, Edinburgh

Brewery re-located here in 1892, a move made necessary by railway development in the area of the present Calton Road. Buildings mostly designed and erected by R Hamilton Paterson & Co of Edinburgh, Brewers architects and engineers. Several ranges, alterations (including blocked windows) and additions; near to south end of complex a gabled tall and long MALTBARN with loft dormers and axial ventilators to alternate bays; top 2 floors were barley lofts, the lower containing maltbins and steeps; pair pyramidal-roofed KILNS at east are integral; snecked rock-faced ashlar, droved dressings, continuous cill bands at 2 levels; slated roofs, distinctive ventilators to kiln roofs; parallel, and to north, the BREWHOUSE block, 4-storey and part now roofless, similar materials, but part with cast-iron lintels; range to east not original, open at ground, wide lintels on stone piers, top floor of framed construction with multi-paned glazed panels, longitudinal roof ventilator; fronting Duddingston Road West (ie east) a block said to have originally been Blyth and Cameron's brewery by Peter L Henderson 1897; long range with symmetrical 2-storey office at south end; again, similar material including cast-iron lintels, but dressings are contrasting red ashlar; Scots renaissance details, centre doorcase to office, iron-barred brewery openings; tall red brick CHIMNEY STALK heightened in yellow brick; low range at north built hard against railway line.