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