Description

Circa 1828-35 flax warehouses in U-plan around a court,
with L-plan warehouse added to W in the 1860s. Rubble-
built.
Blinshall Street: 2-storey, 6-bay warehouse with 2 blocked
windows and 2 doors, 1 enlarged, at ground floor.
Symmetrical 1st floor with 2 taller blind windows in centre
and 2 windows to each side, 1 blind and 1 blocked. Blank
N and S gables. Lower L-shaped warehouse to W, with fire
barrier wall, encloses court. Piended slate roof. Wooden
gate to courtyard.
Long 2-storey warehouse at Guthrie Street with 3-bay E
gable and enlarged door. 2 windows have modern block
glazing. Roof was piended slate, altered to gabled and
now corrugated. Guthrie Street elevation has 5 blocked
ground floor doors and 10 small margined windows with
modern block glazing. S elevation similar with small 1st
floor windows and a wooden hoist to court. Tall 3-storey
warehouse at right angles to the 1- and 2-storey warehouses
with later large door at ground floor of Guthrie Street
elevation. 3-bay 1st and 2nd floors with hoist doors in
left hand bays under wrought iron hoist and original
unglazed wooden shuttered windows. Hipped slate roof with
central fire barrier wall. Elevation to court has small
blind windows at 1st and 2nd floors and larger blocked
doors under 1 wooden and 2 wrought-iron hoists. W elevation
has small blind windows to a narrow alley. 2-storey L-plan
warehouse, 1860s, separated from older warehouse by narrow
passage with steps, linked by iron gantry at 1st floor.
Front elevation 5 bays with central entrance, below louvred
hoist door. W elevation 3-bay with shuttered windows, iron
at ground and wooden at 1st floor. Rear section of L lit
at 1st floor by 3 small multi-paned windows. Blank N
elevation, 2 piended roofs.
Interior: Blinshall Street Warehouse high ground floor
with wooden multilple tie-team roof, lower section at rear
Queen post and collar beams. Guthrie Street 2-storey
warehouse with steel frame and concrete arched floors
inserted circa 1900. Queen Post roof. 3-storey warehouse
has 1st floor removed in N section, but S part retains
original timber post and beam construction on all 3 floors.
W, L-plan, warehouse with flanged cast-iron columns
carrying wooden floors and beams with wells. Open tie-beam
roof. Internal stone dividing wall with arched entrance.
Some original iron-plated wooden doors.

Statement of Interest

The oldest surviving warehouses in Western Dundee. Probably

originally owned by A or J and W Brown, for flax, hemp and

jute. Partitioned c.1890, for various uses, named

"Blinshall St Court". Later a paper store for J Leng and

now D C Thomson.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17800960

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  For the Record
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments