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Howden's Engineering Works: Office Block (Former)

Date 20 April 2009

Event ID 911995

Category Management

Type Site Management

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/911995

2-storey 4-by 6-bay office. Front ashlar, channelled on ground floor continuing across quoins. Basket arched door and sash and case windows with roll moulded arrises. Cornice over ground quoins. 1st floor 4 basket arched windows. Eaves cornice. Wallhead stack. Paterson Street elevation 6 bays, brick, now harled except yellow brick margins. 1 window now a door. Dentil cornice. Ground and 1st floors. Slate roof, corrugated rear. Interior: panelled window reveals, plaster cornice and ceiling rose, now part of warehouse, ground floor. Upstairs a flat.

Office part of Howden's second works, built 1870-2 for marine engineering. (Historic Scotland)

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