Description

Thompson and Gall, engineers, Tay Foundry, 1868. 3-storey, basement and attic, 5-bay, former waste textile, subsequently iron warehouse. Sandstone coursers, ashlar dressings, grey slate Mansard roof. Band course to ground and 2nd floor, coped parapet and skews, casement windows with 1- and 2-pane top-hoppers above.

FRONT ELEVATION: large central door with original cast-iron pedimented lintel, smaller basement door to right with 2 windows above, 2 windows to left altered to form large shop window; 5 windows to 1st and 2nd floor; slate-hung lift tower rising from parapet.

REAR ELEVATION: 3-bay. Ground floor masked by rubble and brick outbuilding; gangway link at 1st floor to iron warehouse at 20 Commercial Street (also listed), 2 windows to right; 3 windows to 2nd floor.

W GABLE: part of an early 19th century warehouse largely destroyed by fire.

INTERIOR: fireproof construction of cast-iron columns and beams with brick arched floors; cast-iron roof; spiral cast-iron stair.

Statement of Interest

The only building known to have been constructed by Thompson and Gall, active 1866-8 at Tay Foundry. W B Thompson took up shipbuilding and established the Caledon Shipyard (later Robb Caledon) in 1874. The warehouse was built for J and W Smith, waste merchants, later becoming the iron warehouse of George Stephen and Sons, Castle Street. The

only fully fireproof warehouse in the area. Part of Smeaton's circa 1790 dry or graving dock is reputed to lie in the cellars of one of the warehouses in Exchange Street.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17807096

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (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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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)