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Architecture Notes
Event ID 669771
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/669771
NT27SW 4574 2265 7235
A complex of four reinforced-concrete multi-storey whisky bonds built in the 1950s and 1960s to accommodate greatly enhanced grain whisky production at the neighbouring North British Distillery (NT27SW 112) has been recorded on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 2003). The southern-most of the four big blocks was completed in 1953 at a cost of £165,000, and further expansion was possible as a result of the purchase from the city corporation of land belonging to the adjacent former tramway depot. In 2003 plans were submitted for the demolition of the warehouses, which were widely regarded as being amongst the ugliest buildings in Edinburgh, the intention being to replace them with a supermarket.
Information from RCAHMS (MO) 18 May 2004.
L G Gardiner 1985.
