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Latitude: 55.994 / 55°59'38"N
Longitude: -2.5551 / 2°33'18"W
OS Eastings: 365472
OS Northings: 678030
OS Grid: NT654780
Mapcode National: GBR ND1W.469
Mapcode Global: WH8VZ.QLHS
Plus Code: 9C7VXCVV+HX
Entry Name: Sherriff Works, West Barns, Dunbar
Listing Name: West Barns, Sherriff Works with Stalk
Listing Date: 17 May 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 332094
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB1483
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dunbar, West Barns, Sherriff Works
ID on this website: 200332094
Location: Dunbar
County: East Lothian
Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton
Parish: Dunbar
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1878. Single storey, rectangular plan engineering
works with projecting power house and stalk. Brick with
dressings of contrasting colour. 200' by 40'. Windows
under eaves.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: engine house advanced off-centre
to left, altered to form shop; brick base course with
cast-iron columns and glazing; doorway on N return.
8 bays flanking to right with doorway in penultimate
bay.
W ELEVATION: 18 windows, regularly spaced.
N AND S ELEVATIONS: 4 windows, spaced as above.
STALK: tapering square section brick shaft, with
contrasting quoins, neck band and square coping of 8
brick courses; 50' high, set in N pitch of power house.
Overlapping glazing between cast-iron uprights. 4-pane
sash and case windows to former office windows at N end.
Corrugated iron piend roofs. Weathervane.
INTERIOR: steam engine removed but boiler in situ
(1987). Unusual truss form to open roof. Painted brick
walls.
Thomas Sherriff and Co Works were pioneers in line of
agricultural engineering works, becoming specialists in
seed drills from an early date. The simple design of the
late 19th century works is impressive by its glazing and
polychrome brickwork.
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