Redford Infantry Barracks Block, Colinton Road, Edinburgh

Redford Infantry Barracks Block is a large, four-storey, 57-bay Infantry Barracks block built between 1909 and 1915, designed by Harry B Measures. The building has a square, double-courtyard plan and was constructed of dark, coursed rock-faced rubble with pale ashlar dressings, with channelled ashlar to the ground floor. Prominent features include a base course, band courses to all floors, and an eaves course, with windows having projecting cills. The courtyard elevations are harled.

The principal northwest-facing elevation features a central, advanced five-bay section with triple arcaded balconies and octagonal copper-domed turrets. The long flanking wings each have two, two-bay advanced sections with semicircular pediments and advanced dormered roofs. The penultimate bays on each wing are advanced three-bay gabled sections with semicircular pedimented windows to the gable apexes. The ground floor has alternating wide and narrow round-arched, key-blocked windows and doors.

The main entrance is through a large depressed arch in the advanced five-bay section, leading to a slightly recessed three-bay, three-storey section above with arcaded balconies. Above the balconies is a bell-cast, leaded half-roof and a large pediment-gable containing a clock. The outer sections of the advanced section are topped by octagonal copper-domed lanterns with tall round-arched windows and flanking mini-turrets.

The side elevations each have two advanced bays with arcaded balconies. A single-storey section at the rear is irregularly fenestrated and incorporates later alterations, including a central, tall, tapered and corniced chimney. Linking, single-storey buildings connect various parts of the complex within the courtyards.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case windows, with small panes in the upper sashes and two panes in the lower sashes. The ground floor has timber casement windows. The roof is covered in grey graded slates with raised skews.

Internally, observed in 2016, several stone dog-leg staircases with cast iron railings serve all floors. The upper storeys were converted to small, four-person rooms between the 1980s and 1990s. The ground floor retains some original timber skirting boards and picture rails in the corridors. A canteen area within the courtyard features part-fluted, Ionic iron columns and a raised area with a dentilled proscenium arch.

The building's listing excludes numbers 289 and 291 Colinton Road.