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Standing Building Recording
Date November 2004 - December 2004
Event ID 841485
Category Recording
Type Standing Building Recording
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/841485
NT27NW 349 NT 2317 7707
Standing building recording
NT 2317 7707 A desk-based assessment and historic building survey were undertaken in November and December 2004 at the former Madelvic car factory in advance of redevelopment. Map references suggest that an 18th-century house and gardens, Broom Park, was replaced in 1898 by the construction of the Madelvic works, office and generating blocks - symmetrical rectangular blocks of well-lit flat-roofed brick buildings. This was the first purpose-built car factory in Britain. It is likely that the central area of the works block was enclosed some time between 1902 and 1906. The buildings were used as a car factory until WW1, and after 1925 became a central component of the United Wire Works until 2001. Changing use throughout the 20th century saw the majority of the internal features associated with car production removed, though small vestiges survived, and the external character of the buildings were largely intact.
Archive to be deposited in NMRS.
Sponsor: Malcolm Fraser Architects.
G Geddes 2005
