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Coupar Angus, Pleasance Road, Strathmore Tannery

Tannery (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Coupar Angus, Pleasance Road, Strathmore Tannery

Classification Tannery (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 150117

Site Number NO23NW 92

NGR NO 22190 39580

NGR Description centred on buildings on 1901 Ordnance Survey map.

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Coupar Angus, Pleasance Road, Strathmore Tannery
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Coupar Angus, Pleasance Road, Strathmore Tannery
View from WView from east south eastDetail of sliding door.Detail of remains of loading bayView from southView from north westInterior. Detail of electric motorInterior. Detail of drive shaft.View from south eastInterior.  West section, view of ground floor from eastInterior. Main building, view of 2nd floor from westDetail of metal wall bracketsDetail of ruined outbuildingDetail of sliding doorInterior.  West section, view of ground floor from westInterior. Main building, view of ground floorInterior. Main building, detail of 1st floor staircase and chuteView from south south westView of wall and shed to north from south westInterior. Main building, detail of hoist mechanismView from east north eastDetail of remains of loading areaView of east gableView of wallDetail of 1st floor doorView from westInterior. Detail of fire extinguisherView of  west end from southView of remains of loading bayDetail of wallInterior. Main building, view of 1st floor from westInterior. Main bulding, detail of 2nd floor wood panelsInterior. Main building, detail of hoist at 2nd floor level.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Coupar Angus
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NO23NW 92 2219 3958

(Location cited as NO 222 396). Tannery, mid 19th century. A group of rubble buildings, the largest of which is a four-storey, six-bay block with louvred ventilators in the top floor.

J R Hume 1977.

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Note (2009)

Strathmore Tannery, situated on the southern periphery of Coupar Angus, had been mostly demolished by the date of visit. Originally, the tannery had buildings covering an area of some 505 square metres (Ordnance Survey first edition 25-inch map, Perth and Clackmannan Perthshire, 1867, sheet LXIV.13 (combined)). By 1901 (Ordnance Survey 2nd edition 25-inch map, Perth and Clackmannan Perthshire, 1901, sheet LXIV.13), it covered an area of 2015.7 square metres (21702.8 square feet) in buildings, although the site extent of had increased during this period with the incorporation of the southern part of the former Drying Green. The Tannery also appears to have utilised the 'Mill Lade', depicted and named on the Ordnance Survey map (Ordnance Survey 2nd edition 25-inch map, Perth and Clackmannan Perthshire, 1901, sheet LXIV.13) which was fed by the Kettins Burn and emptied into the Coupar Burn at NO21938 39745. This lade also served the Waulk Mill at NO22164 39703.

The remaining part of the original long range, centred at NO22172 39588, had lost its east end which had originally extended to the east boundary of the site. This four-storey rubble-masonry tannery with a wooden louvered top floor, wooden beams, king-post roof and cast-iron columns contained remains of a drive-shaft and electric motor on the first floor above, a chute from the fourth through the mezzannine level to the first floor 'taking-in' door. The louvered fourth floor is where the hides would have been dried after currying, cleaning and tentering.

This remaining process building was photographed by RCAHMS in advance of demolition, including a later building to the north (NO22166 39615, mid 20th- century) and a shed to the east (NO22200 39618, post 1901) both of which occupy a piece of land depicted and named as 'Drying Green' on the Ordnance Survey first edition 25-inch map (Perth and Clackmannan Perthshire, 1867, sheet LXIV.13 (combined)) but un-named on the Ordnance Survey 2nd edition 25-inch map (1901).

Visited by RCAHMS (MMD/IA), 2009

Photographic Survey (2009)

This was photographed by RCAHMS in 2009 in advance of the proposed demolition of the last remaining building of Strathmore Tannery.

Information from RCAHMS (MMD), 16 February 2012.

Standing Building Recording (29 April 2013)

NO 22180 39624 A Level 2 survey was carried out on 29 April 2013 of the surviving buildings in the Strathmore Tannery complex prior to redevelopment. A written and photographic record was produced of all the buildings.

Archive: RCAHMS

Funder: Mr P Thomson, Proactive

Derek Hall, 2013

(Source: DES)

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