Description

Earlier 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay warehouse on sloping site, adapted in late 19th century as a fish curing house; lower timber-framed splittering shed adjoining to SE. Coursed red sandstone rubble.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3 ground floor doors to yard, 1st floor central hoist door altered to window.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: 3 windows at 1st floor, added later.

SE ELEVATION: Late 19th century single storey, timber-framed splittering shed. Walls mostly timber boarding between timber posts; some recent blockwork. Piended slate roof.

NW ELEVATION: Large blocked gable door to street at higher level. Loosely fitting pantiled roof, overlapping stone skews to E gable; piend at W.

INTERIOR: timber spars to suspend fish; 2 brick and stone cross-walls,

1 reduced to pier to carry lengthwise beam. Coped stone boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

Possibly a flax warehouse, or a granary over a stable, or both at different times, then converted to process fish in the herring boom.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17775663

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]