View of gates between former brewery buildings in Sugarhouse Close (off Canongate), Edinburgh, from SE.
DP 158614
Description View of gates between former brewery buildings in Sugarhouse Close (off Canongate), Edinburgh, from SE.
Date 24/7/2013
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number DP 158614
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Situated just behind 154-166 Canongate, Sugarhouse Close retains its cobbled surface, and leads to this large gated opening in the former boundary wall of the Holyrood Brewery which operated from this site from 1868. Attached to the west (left) is a three-storeyed, L-plan, whitewashed building, probably built to house workers for the Holyrood Brewery. The external stair, on the east elevation, provided access at first floor level. The single-storeyed lean-to entrance porch on the right accesses a two-storeyed former office building. 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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