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Latitude: 56.4634 / 56°27'48"N
Longitude: -2.9561 / 2°57'21"W
OS Eastings: 341182
OS Northings: 730553
OS Grid: NO411305
Mapcode National: GBR ZCG.5Y
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.KSJX
Plus Code: 9C8VF27V+9H
Entry Name: Transit Shed 25, Camperdown Street, Victoria Dock, Dundee Harbour
Listing Name: Camperdown Dock, Transit Shed 25, or G Shed
Listing Date: 2 November 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361047
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24928
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee Harbour, Victoria Dock, Camperdown Street, Transit Shed 25
ID on this website: 200361047
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Maryfield
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Charles Ower, 1864-5, extended to E circa 1880-90. Single-storey brick and timber-clad transit shed on the W side of Camperdown Dock.
E, DOCK, ELEVATION: 13-bay cast iron pilastrade with lion rainwater heads and malleable iron girder lintel to timber sliding doors the full length of the wall.
W ELEVATION: brick with ashlar eaves course and rusticated quoins and door-surrounds. Timber sliding doors with malleable iron or steel lintels.
S ELEVATION: brick-built with rusticated quoins. 2 gables, the E (1865) advanced with large off-centre sliding door. Gable to W, central sliding door, wide segmental arched window over.
N ELEVATION: gable to W similar to S elevation, gable to E boarded where link to sheds on N side of Dock and passage for railway has been demolished.
Slate M-roof, that over E shet altered to corrugated sheeting.
INTERIOR: 2 spacious aisles divided by cast iron columns and malleable iron or steel girders, E wrought-iron polonceau truss with cast-iron struts, W wrought-iron or steel tension rods and angle-irons
The E part is the oldest surviving transit shed in Dundee. Camperdown Dock was built between 1857 and 1865 from the old Eastern tidal harbour.
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