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Publication Account
Date 1986
Event ID 1017615
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017615
This is a three-storeyed oblong building, probably of early 19th-century date with some later modifications. It measures 32 ft 9in (9.98m) in length by 16 ft 7 in (5.06m) transversely. The lowest storey and the gables are rubble built; the side-walls of the upper two floors are louvred to provide the necessary ventilation. There are two original adjustable louvres operated by a pole-bar in the westernmost bay of the S wall of the airing loft; the remaining louvres are of the fixed type, and the N elevation is mainly weather boarded The building has a collar-rafter roof utilising sawn half-log timbers and ad zed floor-beams; latterly it appears to have served as a laundry-house with the original airing-loft then being used for drying.
Another provincial tannery, having characteristic louvred frontage and a well-preserved airing-loft with tenter-rails, has been noted at Mill Street, Ayr.
Information from ‘Monuments of Industry: An Illustrated Historical Record’, (1986).
