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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 702485
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/702485
NS56NW 35 540 660 [Part removed to NS 3148 3832]
For engine works building (removed to NS 3148 3832, within the Scottish Maritime Museum complex), see also NS33NW 63.01.
See Architecture (RCAHMS survey 1980's).
Founded 1869 by Alexander Stephen & Sons, and subsequently greatly extended. An engine works was added in 1872 and substantial additions made in 1905, 1908 and 1914. The three-storey 3-by-7 bay red brick office block was built in 1914 (?14,438). A large complex of mainly single storey red-brick, corrugated-iron and corrugated-asbestos-clad steel buildings.
J R Hume 1974.
(Location cited as NS 540 660 and name as Linthouse Shipbuilding Yard). Founded 1869 by Alexander Stephen & Sons. The most interesting part of this large complex is the original cast-iron-framed engine works of 1872.
J R Hume 1976.
The engine works building has been moved to the Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), July 1995
