Works, 6 Shore, Leith, Edinburgh

This building, known as Works, located at 6 Shore in Leith, Edinburgh, was designed by Archibald Thomson in 1885. It is a three-storey engineering workshop and foundry that incorporates earlier remains. The structure features red brick and coursed and squared rubble walls up to the first floor level facing Tower Street.

The west elevation, facing Shore, has five bays, with three bays on the right that are gabled and three storeys high. This section includes a large rectangular doorway and a smaller secondary doorway, with single segmental-arched windows above. To the left, there are two bays that are two storeys high, which have been truncated after a fire, featuring a secondary door and segmental-arched windows.

The east elevation, at the rear, has four bays of the engineering workshop on the left, which also have segmental-arched windows. There is a tall tapering stalk and a link block with a broad tripartite window at the first floor in the centre. The gable elevation of the foundry on the right has two segmental-arched windows at the first floor.

The south elevation, facing Timber Bush, has four bays with tall full-length round-arched windows. The north elevation, facing Tower Street, has seven bays, with a rubble ground floor and a large rectangular doorway to the left. It features segmental-arched windows at the first floor, and the wallhead is raised.

The building has 12-pane fixed windows, some with cast-iron frames and others that are modern replacements. The roofs are made of corrugated iron with iron bracing and skylights.

Inside, the structure has a steel beam construction. The main assembly space features heavy cast-iron stanchions with pierced webs that support a gantry beam, which is the original crane. The stanchions are of the same dimensions as those in the former foundry.