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Latitude: 56.7751 / 56°46'30"N
Longitude: -2.3996 / 2°23'58"W
OS Eastings: 375678
OS Northings: 764901
OS Grid: NO756649
Mapcode National: GBR X8.P35Z
Mapcode Global: WH8R6.3ZM1
Plus Code: 9C8VQJG2+25
Entry Name: Woodston Fishery
Listing Name: Woodston Fishing Station, Former Skipper's Quarters, Bothy and Ice House
Listing Date: 4 September 2000
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 394707
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB47357
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200394707
Location: St Cyrus
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Mearns
Parish: St Cyrus
Traditional County: Kincardineshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SKIPPER'S QUARTERS AND BOTHY
Earlier 19th century. Single storey and attic, 6-bay, rectangular plan former Skipper's Quarters and Bothy. Random rubble, painted to SE and SW.
SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; piend-roofed boarded timber porch to penultimate bay to left, flanked to left and right by single windows; doorway to penultimate bay to right, flanked by irregularly windows.
NE ELEVATION: gabled; doorway to left of ground floor, flanked by flat-roofed low addition at right; timber steps lead to opening set in
gablehead; weather-vane to gable apex. NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; irregularly placed openings.
SW ELEVATION: gabled; single window to right.
Predominantly timber sash and case windows. Slate roof. Stone skews with blocked skewputts. Gablehead and ridge stacks with circular cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 2000.
ICE HOUSE
Earlier 19th century. 2-chambered ice house set in hillside to E of Skipper's House and Bothy facing SE. Squared rubble. Gabled SE elevation, wall advanced to left at ground floor, doorway flanking to right, gable-line of former structure survives. Inner chamber vaulted.
Salmon fishing was important to the community of St Cyrus. Woodston Fishing station, which was run by Joseph Johnston & Sons, Ltd, est. 1826, is mentioned in the New Statistical Account as a major salmon fishery. The survival of the ice house is particularly significant. In the 18th century ice houses became used by fisheries to store and provide ice to pack the fish (previously fish was pickled, or packed in salt) which allowed fresh fish to be easily transported. Most of the fish produced at Woodston was sold in Edinburgh and London.
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