The Pump House
Date 26 May 2010
Event ID 915257
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/915257
Single-storey 5-bay gabled pumphouse, alongside the dry graving dock, with central arched doorway. Small-paned windows. End gables with skewputts and ball finials. Slate roof with large skylights and 2 conical-capped ventilators to E, over basement pumps. The pumps were originally steam-powered, probably by vertical marine engines over the pumps. The west end of the pumphouse probably housed the boilers. The chimney and two 5-ton cranes have been demolished. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)
The old harbour and docks, built 1815-30, were filled in when the Tay Road Bridge was constructed. Victoria and Camperdown Docks were begun in 1833 by James Leslie to Thomas Telford's design, by David Cunningham, passage between them spanned by a hand operated iron swing footbridge.
