View of former brewery building in Sugarhouse Close (off Canongate), Edinburgh, from NE.

Description View of former brewery building in Sugarhouse Close (off Canongate), Edinburgh, from NE.

Date 24/7/2013

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number DP 158608

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content This three-storeyed, L-plan, whitewashed building sits just behind 154-166 Canongate in Sugarhouse Close, and was probably built to house workers for the Holyrood Brewery which operated from this site from 1868. The external stair on the east elevation (behind wall and gates) provided access to the building at first floor level. Another entrance at ground floor is slightly grander with a large lamp bracket above the timber door. The wall and large gated opening would have provided access to the brewery site from Canongate for both traffic and pedestrians. Sugarhouse Close retains its cobbled surface on this (Canongate) side of the gates/wall, and was originally the location of a sugar refining business from 1752 to 1824. The site was redeveloped in the mid-19th century when the Holyrood Brewery was established here in 1868. The brewery stopped trading in the mid-120th century and some of the disused buildings from the brewery, including this one, have recently (2012) been incorporated into a new development of student accommodation on the site.

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