Description

Early 19th century. Long, low single storey rectangular building with modern breeze-block extension to W gable-end and timber-boarded fish store adjoining E gable-end. Predominantly harled random rubble.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 5-bay elevation to central stone-built section; window openings with timber lintels and timber-boarded shutters to 1st, 3rd and 5th bays from left; timber boarded doors in doorways with timber lintels to 2nd and 4th bays from left. To fish store to right, timber boarded door to left.

N ELEVATION: blank elevation.

E ELEVATION: gable-end of timber fish store with boarded window opening to right.

W ELEVATION: gable-end of modern tractor store with 2-leaf metal doors.

WINDOWS etc: timber-boarded window openings; timber lintels. Corrugated iron pitched roof; brick skews. Harled gable-head stacks to both ends of central block; circular can to W stack.

INTERIOR: stone built section divided into 2 rooms, both fully timber-lined to walls and ceilings. Net store to E side; to W side, living accommodation including open range, pair of 2-tier bunk beds; (originally 3-tier), gas light to ceiling.

Statement of Interest

Still in use as a netting station.

Listed as a good example of a small salmon fishing station with unusually complete interior.

The 1st Edition OS Map (1869) shows two smaller buildings and an icehouse also on the site. This map also show that the existing building was T-plan at this time, with a small outshot to the N elevation. The 2nd edition map (1901) shows the existing building without the outshot, and only one other building and the icehouse. The other building and the icehouse are no longer extant.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17771918

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)