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Portmahomack, Harbour Street, Northern and Southern Storehouses View from SW showing N gable of S store and frontage of N storehouse
SC 435195
Description Portmahomack, Harbour Street, Northern and Southern Storehouses View from SW showing N gable of S store and frontage of N storehouse
Date 1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 435195
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Warehouses, Portmahomack, Ross and Cromarty These two warehouses face the harbour at Portmahomack. Both were built as granaries, with the older one probably a rent house. This is a two-storey, eight -bay building. The other is a three-storey, seven-bay structure. This view shows the 18th century warehouse from the south west. Note the ball finials on the gables, not unusual on granaries. This building, though taller than its neighbour, is also much narrower. The scale of these warehouses testifies to the quantity of grain grown in Easter Ross from the 17th century. The older warehouse was the best building of its type and period in Scotland. Both have been converted to houses. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/128/6
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