Description

2 sections:
1. 1864-5, 2-storey 11-bay block, ashlar. Ground floor
segmental arched windows and large basket arched cartway with
bold voussoirs. String course. 1st floor arched windows with
13-pane glazing pattern. 2 windows over door blocked. Tie
plate at eaves level. Slate roof.
Interior a high single storey L-plan. Inside of L formerly
opened to a yard, 2 tall cylindrical cast-iron columns with
mountings for jib cranes (the latter removed). 3 W bays
formerly 2-storey with upper floor a panelled office.
Kingpost timber roof.
2. 1870-1, 2-storey 4-by 6-bay office. Front ashlar,
channelled on ground floor continuing across quoins. Basket
arched door and sash and case windows with roll moulded
arrises. Cornice over ground quoins. 1st floor 4 basket
arched windows. Eaves cornice. Wallhead stack. Paterson
Street elevation 6 bays, brick, now harled except yellow
brick margins. 1 window now a door. Dentil cornice. Ground
and 1st floors. Slate roof, corrugated rear.
Interior: panelled window reveals, plaster cornice and
ceiling rose, now part of warehouse, ground floor. Upstairs
a flat.

Statement of Interest

Blair Campbell and McLean, Scotland Street Copper Works, had

the largest Copperworks in Scotland in 1891-1903.

Specialising in brewing and distilling mashes and stills and

locomotive domes. Most of it has been demolished. Office part

of Howden's second works, built 1870-2 for marine

engineering.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17814499

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