Description

Mid 19th century. Single storey and attic, rectangular-plan barking house. Grey and red rubble, slate roof. Doors and windows missing.

End stacks.

W ELEVATION: forestair to door at centre with piend-roofed dormerhead breaking through eaves, door to left.

S GABLE: blank.

E ELEVATION: door to right; rooflight.

N GABLE: window to attic at right.

INTERIOR: remains of cobbled ground floor with truncated iron pump shaft, 1st floor removed, boarded coomb ceiling intact at N end.

Statement of Interest

The building was used by herring fishers for treatment to their nets. Nets were immersed in a tannin-rich bark extract, 'cutch', obtained from India, which strengthened them and increased their density and weight. The building is in a dilapidated condition (1993). Remains of a further barking house at Catacol contain boilers.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17830572

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)