2-27 Sugarhouse Close and 41-49 Holyrood Road, Edinburgh (Former Holyrood Brewery)

The former Holyrood Brewery, built in 1868 and possibly incorporating some earlier structures, consists of a group of brewery buildings located on a large site between Holyrood Road and Sugarhouse Close, off Canongate. The buildings were converted into housing in 2014. They feature squared rubble with tooled ashlar margins, and painted rubble with contrasting painted margins on the structures at Sugarhouse Close.

The office buildings predominantly have 12-pane timber sash and case windows and are covered with graded grey slates.

The Maltbarn is a tall, rectangular-plan, multi-bay, three-storey former barn with regular, small rectangular openings on the east and west elevations, which were infilled in 2007. It has a wide, shallow-pitch gable facing south towards Holyrood Road, with raised cills and skews.

The kilns, located to the north of the Maltbarn, consist of a pair of single-storey ranges with piended roofs, the southern range featuring a large apex timber ventilator.

Adjoining the kilns to the east are the brewhouses, which are a pair of gabled former structures with boarded timber doors on the south side. The eastern building is four-storey with ridge ventilators, and its interior includes timber floors, some flanged iron columns, and remnants of internal machinery, including a metal hopper and some pulley equipment. The building to the west has been comprehensively altered to serve as offices.

The Sugarhouse Close section includes a three-storey, L-plan former flat building. An external stair leads to a four-panel timber entrance door with a fanlight above at the first storey, and there are boarded timber entrance doors to Sugarhouse Close, along with cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior, seen in 2007, features some six-panel timber doors and simple cornicing.

The office building, which is two-storey with an adjoining single-storey store to the south, has raised skews and has been comprehensively altered inside, as observed in 2007.

The boundary wall surrounding the site is made of rubble with a flat coping. There is a flat entrance arch from Sugarhouse Close to the north and another entrance opening to the south.