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Eyemouth Harbour, Lifeboat Station
Lifeboat Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Eyemouth Harbour, Lifeboat Station
Classification Lifeboat Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Canmore ID 120193
Site Number NT96SW 76.03
NGR NT 94693 64564
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/120193
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Ayton
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Berwickshire
- Former County Berwickshire
Photographic Survey (June 1961)
Photographic survey of buildings in Eyemouth, Berwickshire, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in June 1961.
Field Visit (21 November 2019)
A single-storeyed, substantial rubble-built (whinstone) block with gable slate roof, red-clay ridge tiles and chamfered stone, shouldered copes (on northwest containing chimney) and built into the slope down to the harbour. Fenestration consists of 2 segmentally arched windows at different levels at each side., and another at the top of the est gable above the main doors onto the slipway. A margins, voussoirs, quoins and sills are of grey sandstone. Other features include stepped buttresses at each side of both gables. A low, lean-to extension has been added on the east end of the boathouse with slate roof, concrete side copes, walls of red plastic clay brick and concrete sills and copes surround the windows and doors.
Visited by Miles K Oglethorpe, RCAHMS, Edinburgh, 4 July 1996.
