19 Siltrig Crescent

19 Siltrig Crescent is an early 19th century, two-storey, L-plan building with a courtyard, originally a brewery and now converted to residential use. It is constructed of random whinstone rubble with red and yellow sandstone dressings and raised margins. The building features ashlar-coped skews and corniced ashlar stacks with circular buff clay cans. A later lean-to entrance porch is added to the first bay of No 17. The piended roof is covered with grey slate and has metal ridges.

The windows are mainly timber sash and case, with a 12-pane glazing pattern on the larger upper floor of No 18, reflecting the building's history as a brewery. There are remnants of a hoist above the second window from the right on the upper storey. The southwest wing (No 19) has smaller, irregularly spaced openings at the front and rear.

The interior, as seen in 2008, includes some cast-iron columns supporting the low ceiling on the ground floor of No 18, along with some tongue and groove panelling on the walls and 4-panel timber doors in No 19.

Historically, a lease for a whisky still-house and brewery with a kiln and barn was first granted on the land to the southwest of the Slitrig Water in 1739, and an early wool mill was operating by 1788. The development of private and industrial buildings along Slitrig Crescent marked one of the town's first expansions beyond its medieval boundaries.

The brewery at 17, 18, and 19 Siltrig Crescent was built after 1799, when the ribbon development and road were formally laid out. The building appears on John Wood's town map of 1824. It closed as a brewery in 1879 and was repurposed for various uses, including a Church Hall for St Cuthbert's Church, a nursery, and eventually converted to residential use in 1980. In 2015, numbers 18 and 19 were combined to create a single dwelling over two floors.