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Lifeboat House And Slipway, Fisher Street, Broughty Ferry

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.465 / 56°27'54"N

Longitude: -2.8772 / 2°52'37"W

OS Eastings: 346046

OS Northings: 730664

OS Grid: NO460306

Mapcode National: GBR VN.3MN1

Mapcode Global: WH7RC.SR2Q

Plus Code: 9C8VF48F+24

Entry Name: Lifeboat House And Slipway, Fisher Street, Broughty Ferry

Listing Name: Broughty Ferry, Fisher Street, Lifeboat House, Including Slipway

Listing Date: 29 October 1991

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 362235

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25805

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Broughty Ferry, Fisher Street, Lifeboat House And Slipway

ID on this website: 200362235

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: The Ferry

Traditional County: Angus

Tagged with: Lifeboat station

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Description

W T Douglass (Westminster), dated 1909. Single storey, rectangular-plan, lifeboat house. Snecked bull-faced rubble masonry, cast-iron rainwater goods, slate roof, steel and concrete slipway. Single angle buttresses, cross-windows with 2 panes at bottom, 8 at top, polished and margined reveals, chamfered cills. Ashlar skews, gabled apex, crowsteps by eaves at S.

S GABLE: flat roofed projection from main gable with vertically sliding boat door and pedestrian door at left, both built into partially blocked formerly larger opening; safety rails left and right, slipway to shore; main gable set-back with '1909' at gablehead.

N GABLE: memorial plaque at centre, window above, 'RNL-BI' at pediment.

W ELEVATION: stairs with railings to door at left; 2 stepped windows at right; 2 rooflights.

E ELEVATION: 2 stepped windows at left; flat-roofed projection with window at right.

INTERIOR: Kingpost roof, with 1 hammerbeam to accommodate hoisted lifeboat.

SLIPWAY: slipway extending from S gable over foreshore.

Statement of Interest

Memorial plaque inscribed to the crew of the Mona, which went down with all hands, 8 December 1959. The first RNLI lifeboat was housed in a building on this site in 1862.

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