Haig's Distillery, Markinch

1. 5-storey, 12-bay, rectangular-plan, flat-roofed monumental Art-Deco bonded warehouse and bottling hall. Red and brown brick and painted cement-render with stone cills. Cement(?) band courses, cill and windowhead course, eaves cornice.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: raised deck of loading bay at ground with tall window to each bay except penultimate left with sliding timber door below small window, dominant cantilevred canopy across full-width and clutching outer corners. 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors forming grid pattern with vertical, stepped dividing pillars interspersed with contrasting horizontal windowheads and surmounted by contrasting lettering ?MARKINCH?. 5th floor with window band framed by stone cill and lintel courses with horizontally-lined brick divides. Contrasting lettering to deep wallhead ?John Haig & Co. Ltd.?; eaves cornice. Full-height flanking brick stair/lift towers above canopy with raised brick pilasters and eaves cornice; returns to right and left with centre windows to all 5 levels (2 below canopy) and smaller window above (5th floor).

E ELEVATION: 9-bays with grid pattern of concrete banding. Variety of elements at ground including tall windows, door and loading bay door. Each bay above ground with bipartite window except bay 6 with 1st floor walkway to adjoining building.

W ELEVATION: much detail at ground obscured by additional buildings. Detail above ground as E elevation but with projecting stack across bay 5.

Small-pane glazing pattern with vertically-aligned astragals and hopper openings in metal windows.

INTERIOR: of former bottling hall space divided by octagonal pillars; trabeated ceiling.