Archaeology Notes

Event ID 764367

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/764367

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The entertainment building on Flotta survives to roof height at Sutherland. No internal features remain, the building having been reduced to a shell only.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE) May 1996.

Only three sides of the brick built theatre/cinema survive in a small clearing in a tree plantation about 150m SW of the entrance to the Flotta Oil terminal. The front entrance gable has been demolished. leaving the rear gable and the E and W elevations in place. The building would have had a pitched roof.

The rear gable has several bricked up windows and a slope roofed extension with two entranceways. A circular hole cit through the apex of the gable would suggest a firring for a clock. The gable also housed the projection/stage lights room, for which six rectangular holes are centrally positioned. Internally the walls have been rendered.

A plaque has been erected on the inside of the N gable:

'Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser

G.C.B. K.B.E.,

Laid this stone

February 29th 1944'

Visited by RCAHMS, (DE, GS, SW), August, October 1997