Bridgeside Works, Mcdonald Road, Edinburgh

Cooper and Taylor, 1897. 2-storey, 12-bay, rectangular-plan factory. Stugged squared and snecked sandstone ashlar with red sandstone ashlar margins. Base course, cill course to 1st floor, cornice and blocking course.

SW (MCDONALD ROAD) ELEVATION: 1st and 2nd bays slightly projecting with segmental pediment at wallhead, paired stone-mullioned bipartites at ground, paired blind round-arched openings with blind oculi to centre at 1st floor. Bays 3-9 stone-mullioned bipartites at ground with blind round-arched openings at 1st floor. 10th and 11th bays projecting slightly, 10th bay with fluted pilasters supporting mutuled cornice over key-stoned round-arched doorpiece with 2-leaf timber panelled door, stone-mullioned bipartite to right with relieving arches, stone-mullioned bipartites at 1st floor, that to left with broken pediment with oculus; large stone nepus gable with pedimented oculus, flanking scrolls and segmental pediment broken by stack above. Stone-mullioned triparites to outer right at each floor with box dormer above.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: segmental pedimented gablehead, window to left at ground, stone-mullioned tripartites to right at 1st floor.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-bay, projecting 3rd bay to right with segmental pedimented stone wallhead dormer. Stone-mullioned bipartites in 1st and 2nd bays to left at ground, in 3rd bay small window to left with window to right, stone-mullioned bipartites to left and window to centre at 1st floor, tall wallhead stack to left.

Timber sash and case windows with plate glass and 4- and 6-pane over 2-pane glazing, grey slates, rooflights.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low coped ashlar walls with square plan banded ashlar gatepier with ball finialled cap.