Bristol Mill, Edinburgh Road

Bristol Mill, built in 1885, is a mill complex located on the outskirts of Galashiels, next to Edinburgh Road. The site features an 8-bay main mill block with a 10-bay addition, a boiler and engine house, and a long range to the southwest along Buckholm Mill Brae, which includes a former scouring shed, a gate lodge, and storage sheds.

The buildings are primarily constructed from whin rubble, with sandstone ashlar and brick dressings, and feature tie plates for trussed or compound beams. There are also later brick buildings on the site.

The spinning mill is a three-storey structure with an attic, measuring 8 by 2 bays. It has a regular arrangement of segmental-headed windows and a piended M-roof, with dormers for headstocks added in 1920-21. To the northwest, there is a 10-bay, irregular-plan, multi-roofed brick extension dating from around 1920. Adjoining the southeast gable are two parallel buildings: a two-storey gabled boiler and engine block with arched ground floor openings, and a single-storey former scouring shed with a curved iron roof.

The gate lodge, dated 1890, is a wedge-plan, two-storey block with a curved two-bay elevation to the south and irregular fenestration on the northwest and northeast elevations.

The southwest range includes a single-storey former waste house made of corrugated iron and various storage buildings, although access was not gained to these areas during the 2005 survey.

Interior access to the courtyard and buildings was also not possible during the resurvey in 2005. However, in 1990, it was noted that the 1885 mill featured three rows of cast-iron columns spigotted through trussed timber cross-beams, while the 1920 extension had a steel frame. The boiler house contained a wire mesh floor set in a cast-iron grid, resembling a kiln.

Wrought iron railings line Edinburgh Road.