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Abbie Meehan

Historic Edinburgh brewery will be transformed into huge housing development

An historic Edinburgh brewery, that shut down in 1987, is set to be transformed into a huge housing development.

The site at Duddingston Road West, near Portobello, was home to the Drybrough & Co brewery from 1895 to 1987.

The site has been used as Holyrood Business Park for the last 30 years since the closure of the brewery.

Now, with planning consent in place for 131 homes, the site is being marketed to buyers interested in acquiring a slice of the city's industrial past.

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Currently home to a range of businesses; like Format Design, the lead architectural design team for the project, the work will see listed buildings including a rare surviving chimney stack preserved for posterity.

Features such as a cobbled courtyard and stone brewery buildings, originally designed by architect Robert Hamilton-Patterson in 1895, will also be retained.

Will Scarlett of Scarlett Land and Development, said: “This is a truly unique opportunity for an exceptional development in a well-connected location.

"There is the real potential here for a purchaser to deliver an exceptional scheme, steeped in the history and character of the former brewery.

Former brewery Drybrough & Co brewery site has gone on the market. (Urban Realm)

"The site may also be suitable for other uses, such as student accommodation, given its location in close proximity to many key University of Edinburgh facilities and the BioQuarter.”

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