Flour Mill, Carpet Lane, Leith, Edinburgh

The building is a former flour mill and printing works located on Carpet Lane in Leith, Edinburgh, dating from the earlier to mid 19th century, with alterations made in 1895. It is a five-storey structure constructed of cream sandstone and coursed rubble, featuring some droved dressings.

On the southeast elevation facing Carpet Lane, the building has three bays. The outer left bay includes loading doors and a gabled dormer head, with two narrow windows on the ground and first floors. The center bay has single windows at the ground floor, and tall single windows on the first and second floors, with additional single windows above. There is a doorway in the outer right bay, with the same window arrangement as the center bay on the first through fourth floors. This bay also has remnants of a smaller window at the first floor and a tall round-arched window at the second and third floors, along with a rectangular iron tie at the second floor. Above the second floor, there is a pierced oculus.

The northeast elevation on Bernard Street features four bays and is gabled. It has a single-storey projecting shopfront at the ground floor, which is listed separately as 41-45 Bernard Street. Tall windows span the first and second floors, with a band course and large fascia above. The third and fourth floors have single windows, and there is a blocked oculus at the gablehead, along with remnants of a tall round-arched arcade at the third floor.

The northwest (rear) elevation has single windows. The building has modern timber casement and hopper windows, as well as a modern pantiled roof. The interior was not seen in 1993.