Caledonian Brewery, Slateford Road, Edinburgh

Components of various dates from later 19th to early 20th century. Very complete example of brewery complex of medium size; comprising offices, maltings with double kiln and double barley kiln, brewhouse, chimney and ancillary buildings. Main ranges in red brick with white brick dressings, partly whitewashed.

OFFICE BLOCK: single storey to road, 3-storey to rear; 3-bay elevation to road, faced with squared and stugged cream ashlar sandstone. Panelled door at centre with rectangular plate glass fanlight and gable; flanked by bipartite windwos, under projecting eaves. End elevations blank, gabled; also with projecting eaves.

MALTINGS: single storey and attic 7-bay front to road; bright red brick, cornice and parapet. At centre, architraved door and flanking narrow rectangular lights, semi-circular window in gable above. Flanking blind aracde with oculi above piers. 3-light corniced dormers flank gable behind parapet. Single bay end elevations with semi-circular window in gable. Forms bridge over service road below. Added to earlier mostly 4-storey, 8-bay malting range behind with kiln at N. Regular graduated fenestration; leading bays in 5th and 8th bays from left.

INTERIOR: cast-iron columns with wooden floors (some alterations including doubling width and strengthening).

BARLEY KILN: joined to malting kiln by 3-storey linking block.

BREWHOUSE RANGE: 4-storey, with 3-bay gable to railway; 2-storey 3-bay range links to 5-storey 2-bay water tower with gabled hip roof.

CHIMNEY: tall, circular sectioned, attached to boiler house.

ANCILLARY BUILDINGS: include single storey bottling and despatch stores to N of bowling green and altered stable range. Some equipment of interest survives including 3 coppers and a boiler. Office with timber sash and case plate glass windows, otherwise timber casement windows. Grey slate roofs; moulded brick skews.

BOUNDARY WALLS: dwarf rubble walls with ashlar coping and cast-iron railings front blocks to road; linked by full height rubble walls with semi-circular coping.