Blairgowrie, Tannage Street, Store
Storehouse (19th Century)
Site Name Blairgowrie, Tannage Street, Store
Classification Storehouse (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) S C W S Potato Fruit & General Merchants
Canmore ID 144745
Site Number NO14NE 118
NGR NO 18095 45172
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Blairgowrie
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO14NE 118 18095 45172
A three-storeyed six-bay by two-bay warehouse with slate roof, constructed mostly from red brick, the lower floor being built or red sandstone rubble into the steep sloping river bank of the River Ericht. The frontage onto Tannage Street is therefore only two storeys, and comprises mostly gabled polychrome bays with white brick margins. The building had been used by the Scottish Wholesale Cooperative Society as store for potato, fruit and other goods, but was disused at the time of survey in 2002.
Information from RCAHMS
(MKO) 2002
2-storey and raised basement, 6-bay, rectangular-plan gabled warehouse on riverside site. Polychrome brick with stone cills on random rubble raised basement. Timber transoms and mullions.SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: all doors 2-leaf boarded timber with traditional roller-type openings. Bays to right of centre with tall doors in gabled bays flanking centre bay with 2 windows. Bays to left with door to centre bay giving way to hayloft door breaking eaves into gabled dormerhead; flanking bays gabled, that to right with door at ground, window and gas lamp in gablehead, that to left with pedestrian door to right, broad blocked window to left and further window in gablehead.NW ELEVATION: 4 light transomed windows to right at ground and 1st floor, latter breaking eaves into dormerhead with adjacent wallhead stack to left and ground falling steeply to left.NE (RIVER ERICHT) ELEVATION: asymmetrically-fenestrated elevation with 3 windows to right at basement (bays to left obscured by vegetation), 6 windows to ground floor; painted lettering 'S C W S LTD POTATO FRUIT & GENERAL MERCHANTS' across 1st floor with further tiny window close to eaves at outer right.SE ELEVATION: blank elevation.Most windows blocked, but evidence of multi-pane glazing in timber windows. Grey slates. Polychrome brick stack with cans. Overhanging eaves with plain bargeboarding and finialled gables.
Warehouse not in use at resurvey 2002. Formerly used as 'Coal Shed and Offices' by James Dick coal merchant. (Historic Scotland)
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