North Corner Range, Drybrough's Brewery, Duddingston Road West, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 November 1988.
North Corner Range, Drybrough's Brewery, Duddingston Road West, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- veiled-span-dale
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1988
- OS grid reference
- NT 287 719
- Coordinates
- 55.93485, -3.14281
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Brewhouse Block at Drybrough's Brewery on Duddingston Road West in Edinburgh was relocated here in 1892 due to railway development in the area of the current Calton Road. The buildings were primarily designed and constructed by R Hamilton Paterson & Co, who were architects and engineers for brewers. The complex includes several ranges, with alterations such as blocked windows and additions.
Near the south end of the site is a tall, long gabled malt barn featuring loft dormers and axial ventilators in alternating bays. The top two floors served as barley lofts, while the lower level housed malt bins and steeps. To the east, there are two pyramidal-roofed kilns that are integral to the structure, built with snecked rock-faced ashlar and droved dressings, and featuring continuous cill bands at two levels. The roofs are slated, with distinctive ventilators on the kiln roofs.
To the north is the Brewhouse block, which is four stories high and partially roofless. It uses similar materials, although some sections have cast-iron lintels. The range to the east is not original; it is open at ground level with wide lintels on stone piers, and the top floor is framed construction with multi-paned glazed panels and a longitudinal roof ventilator.
Fronting Duddingston Road West is a block that is said to have originally been Blyth and Cameron's brewery, designed by Peter L Henderson in 1897. This long range features a symmetrical two-story office at the south end, constructed with similar materials including cast-iron lintels, but with contrasting red ashlar dressings. It showcases Scots Renaissance details, including a central doorcase to the office and iron-barred openings for the brewery. A tall red brick chimney stalk, heightened in yellow brick, is also present, while a low range at the north is built directly against the railway line.
Local climate
North Corner Range, Drybrough's Brewery, Duddingston Road West, Edinburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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