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New Scone, Perth Road, Tram Depot
Depot (20th Century)
Site Name New Scone, Perth Road, Tram Depot
Classification Depot (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Mansfield Road
Canmore ID 127369
Site Number NO12NW 69
NGR NO 1377 2613
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/127369
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Scone
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO12NW 69 1377 2613
Store [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1974.
(Location cited as NO 140 267). New Scone Tram Depot, built 1904-5 for the Perth Corporation Tramways. A single-storey, three-bay brick building with crow-stepped gables. The track fan, of 3ft 6ins (1.06m) gauge, is still in position. Now a garage.
J R Hume 1977.
Field Visit (5 March 1999)
This building is situated on the W side of the junction of Perth Road and Mansfield Road; it remains in use as a local authority roads depot. Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 5 March 1999.
Field Visit (2 June 2017)
Nothing now survives of this former tram depot, the building and its associated boundary walls having been removed to make way for a block of flats that was constructed in 2011. The first residents occupied the new flats in January 2012 (Daily Record 20 January 2012).
Visited by HES Survey and Recording (JRS) 2 June 2017.
