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Latitude: 56.4631 / 56°27'47"N
Longitude: -2.9576 / 2°57'27"W
OS Eastings: 341089
OS Northings: 730516
OS Grid: NO410305
Mapcode National: GBR ZCB.V9
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.JTT6
Plus Code: 9C8VF27R+6X
Entry Name: Transit Shed 26, Camperdown Street, Victoria Dock, Dundee Harbour
Listing Name: Victoria Dock and Camperdown Street Transit Sheds Nos 26-30 (Inclusive)
Listing Date: 2 November 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361104
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24981
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee Harbour, Victoria Dock, Camperdown Street, Transit Shed 26
ID on this website: 200361104
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Maryfield
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Shed
David Cunningham, Harbour Engineer, with Charles Ower as Consulting Engineer; ironwork by John Stewart and Sons, Irvine, 1874.
Single-storey brick and timber-clad transit sheds on the N side of Victoria Dock with 4 party wall divisions.
N ELEVATION: brick with ashlar base and eaves courses. Rusticated quoins, alternately vermiculated, to timber sliding doors with malleable iron lintels. Square-section cast-iron rain water goods. Sheds 29 and 30 have been painted.
S ELEVATION: colonnade of cylindrical cast-iron columns with mask rainwaterheads (reputedly the face of David Cunningham). Timber sliding doors the entire length of the wall (except a part of Shed 26 which has modern brickwork) under malleable iron girders.
W GABLE: timber-boarded, now painted. E gable adjoins the Clocktower warehouse (built 1877).
Slate roofs, without skylights. 3 brick party walls.
Interior: wrought-iron tie roofs. Stone set floors.
Victoria Dock (10.75 Acres) was begun by James Leslie. c1836-7 and completed under David Cunningham in 1869-75. Opened 16 August 1975.
The transit sheds are amongst the longest complete examples in Scotland.
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