Large grain whisky distillery complex. Chimney stalk built circa 1870-1880, landmark exactly aligned with Shandwick Place. Circular section, approximately 300 feet tall, top formerly as flared funnel, now reduced slightly and rebuilt in yellow brick.
Power house and office back on to it in red brick. Duty-free warehouses to left.
Built for Graham Menzies & Co, 1855 merged with DCL 1884. For many years the largest or second largest distillery in Scotland. In 1887 employed 220 and produced 2,000,000 gallons. It was considered by Barnard that 'in all respects it may be called the model distillery of Europe, as it contains every improvement of machinery and new patent known in distilling and fully justifies the appellation'.
The best preserved of Scotland's big grain whisky distilleries, having changed little externally since the 1880s; notable particularly for its complete still house and its chimney, amongst the biggest of Victorian chimneys surviving in Scotland. The distillery closed in 1988.
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By the respected John Honeyman, 1881-3. Large Early English church with 41m tower to NW. Courses stugged sandstone with smooth dressings, stiff-lead capitals, set-back buttresses, hoodmoulded lancets (larger flanked by nook-shafts), 2-tier moulded base course. Moulded eaves.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Built to replace the Iron Church of North Merchiston which stood at the junction of Ardmillan and Angle Park Terraces and was sold and moved to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in 1884 (where it still stands today). Cross at E end in garden from North Merchiston Church (congregations united when the latter was demolished). The tower was built in two stages, a spire originally being intended. The roof of the original tower is still inside the upper stage.
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Designed by Chadwick, Watson & Co. (of Leeds), 1937. Prominent Art Deco former cinema on road junction with bowed corner. Red brick with concrete band courses to base, surrounds to sign boards and bowed centrepiece. 5-bay full-height bow with dividing pilasters; deep blank wallhead at attic level, stepped to centre.
The cinema served latterly as a County Bingo hall. The façade makes a significant contribution to the streetscape.
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By William Notman, 1855. Large grain whisky distillery complex of sandstone rubble-built buildings. Dated 1855 in armorial. Tall rectangular-plan building with 3 arched windows at upper level and curved sheet metal-clad roof with ridge ventilator. Housed single Coffey Still.
Built for Graham Menzies & Co, 1855 merged with DCL 1884. For many years the largest or second largest distillery in Scotland. In 1887 employed 220 and produced 2,000,000 gallons. It was considered by Barnard that 'in all respects it may be called the model distillery of Europe, as it contains every improvement of machinery and new patent known in distilling and fully justifies the appellation'. Still house housed a single Coffey still.
The best preserved of Scotland's big grain whisky distilleries, having changed little externally since the 1880s; notable particularly for its complete still house, claimed to have held the biggest patent still in Europe, and its chimney, amongst the biggest of Victorian chimneys surviving in Scotland. The distillery closed in 1988.
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Designed by John A.W. Grant, 1937-40. Sculpture over entrance by Pilkington Jackson. A 2-storey and attic, rectangular-plan inter-war modern library with corner tower; Art Nouveau and Art Deco details. Coursed sandstone ashlar; steel frame with reinforced concrete floors; rendered brick to rear. Cill course; deep cornice between 1st floor and attic; flat roof.
Tags: 28mm Elmarit v4 Art Deco Library Edinburgh Pilkington Jackson
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