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Latitude: 56.4622 / 56°27'44"N
Longitude: -2.9555 / 2°57'19"W
OS Eastings: 341216
OS Northings: 730418
OS Grid: NO412304
Mapcode National: GBR ZCK.MH
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.KTTV
Plus Code: 9C8VF26V+VQ
Entry Name: Pump House, Dry Dock, Victoria Dock, Dundee Harbour
Listing Name: Victoria Dock, East Graving or Dry Dock and Pump House
Listing Date: 2 November 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361125
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24986
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee Harbour, Victoria Dock, Dry Dock, Pump House
ID on this website: 200361125
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Maryfield
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Architectural structure
David Cunningham, Harbour Engineer, with Charles Ower, Consulting Engineer, 1869-75. Dry or graving dock, 500 feet long, with single-storey pump house to SE, both ashlar.
GRAVING DOCK: 500' long at base, 516' full length, with 50'/6" entrance. Ashlar-faced with stepped N and S elevations; symmentrically arranged twin stairs flanking plinths, 2 to each elevation. Lower stage a smooth incline at centre with stepped ends. Ashlar floor with a central row of keel blocks. Iron dock gate, opening to victoria Dock, with chain railed footbridge.
PUMP HOUSE: single-storey 5-bay gabled building with central arched doorway. Small-paned windows. End gables with skewputts and ball finials. Slate roof with large skylights and 2 conical-capped ventilators to E, over basement pumps.
Bracegirdle attributes the design to Telford but confuses it with the West Graving dock, now beneath the Tay Road Bridge approaches.
The pumps were originally steam-powered, probably by vertical marine engines over the pumps. The W end of the pumphouse probably housed the boilers. The chimney and 2 5-ton cranes have been demolished. Dry Dock still in use (1988).
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