Elderpark Workspace (Former Galbraith Stores Bakery), Nimmo Drive, Craigton Road, 100 Elderpark Street

Elderpark Workspace (Former Galbraith Stores Bakery)

This is a group of two-storey, rectangular-plan blocks forming an extensive former bakery complex, designed by H Cook & Hamilton and constructed in phases between 1911 and 1927. The buildings occupy a prominent corner site with main elevations facing Elderpark Street and Craigton Road.

The complex is built in red brick laid in garden wall bond, with characteristic Victorian industrial detailing. All elevations feature two-bay flat arched and moulded architrave pends with gables breaking the wallhead. A chamfered base course runs throughout, with glazed brick forming double cill courses at ground and first floor levels. String courses sit below the tops of brick pilasters, and a chamfered cornice runs beneath moulded coping to wallhead gables. The apex of central bays is decorated with polychrome diamond patterning. Bays are divided by brick pilasters and slightly recessed, with chamfered cills and dentilled cornices. Concrete cills and predominantly square-headed windows with moulded and recessed lintels are typical across the elevations.

The Craigton Road elevation is a 27-bay terrace built in three distinct phases. The 1911 section (left, 6 bays) includes a brick string course between ground and first floor, a two-leaf door in a square-headed opening to the far left, and brick segmental-headed openings. The 1927 addition (centre, 10 bays) is two-storey with attic, symmetrically planned with gables to paired outer bays. It displays a brick string course between ground and first floor, polychrome diamond patterning to the attic storey of central bays, and brick segmental-headed openings at ground and first floor. The 1923 entrance section (right, 11 bays) features a gable breaking the wallhead to paired bays flanking a central three-bay span, a wide flat-arched pend with carved red sandstone architrave, and four-leaf timber gates set within the left gable. This section has a tall ground floor, glazed brick double cill course at ground level to pilasters only, a two-leaf door with square-headed window above in the outer right bay, and notably lacks an attic window to the bay immediately right of centre.

The Elderpark Street elevation (1927) spans 22 bays with a six-bay near-symmetrical entrance elevation returning northward. The tall ground floor is a distinctive feature. The west elevation contains a two-bay flat-arched opening to the outer right with moulded concrete architrave and a datestone at its centre, a garage door with glazed door to the right and blind glazing above, a two-leaf timber door in a square-headed opening with window above in the fourth bay from the left, and wallhead breaking eaves at the outer left bay. The outer left bays are blind. The north elevation features a gable breaking the wallhead to central bays, a wide flat-arched pend at the centre with carved and painted architrave and a blind oculus moulding, a gable breaking the wallhead above, and unmoulded concrete lintels to first floor windows in the central and right-hand bays. A single-storey three-bay range extends to the right.

The Nimmo Drive end elevation presents a three-bay shouldered blind gable wall with a taller round-arched blind central bay featuring a concrete keystone, flanked by paired brick pilasters. The base of the shortened stack displays polychrome diamond patterning. A single-storey two-bay screen wall to the left is topped with iron railings, with a door set in the left-hand bay within advanced brick jambs and a concrete lintel.

The roofing comprises pitched slate (grey slates to Craigton Road and later corrugated steel to Elderpark Street), with shouldered skews and coped end stack to the Nimmo Drive elevation and straight skew to the 1927 Craigton Road addition. Window glazing is varied, with replacement uPVC, timber and aluminium units throughout.

The interior was remodelled circa 1985 to accommodate office space.