Keith, Hyde Park Tannery
Tannery (19th Century)
Site Name Keith, Hyde Park Tannery
Classification Tannery (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Church Road; Regent Street
Canmore ID 17373
Site Number NJ45SW 27
NGR NJ 42864 50799
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17373
- Council Moray
- Parish Keith
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Banffshire
NJ45SW 27 42864 50799
(Location cited as NJ 428 509). Tannery, probably early 19th century. A 3-storey building on a rectangular plan, with the upper two floors fitted with louvred ventilators. A 2-storey dwelling house adjoins.
J R Hume 1977.
Publication Account (1986)
This is a three-storeyed oblong building, probably of early 19th-century date with some later modifications. It measures 32 ft 9in (9.98m) in length by 16 ft 7 in (5.06m) transversely. The lowest storey and the gables are rubble built; the side-walls of the upper two floors are louvred to provide the necessary ventilation. There are two original adjustable louvres operated by a pole-bar in the westernmost bay of the S wall of the airing loft; the remaining louvres are of the fixed type, and the N elevation is mainly weather boarded The building has a collar-rafter roof utilising sawn half-log timbers and ad zed floor-beams; latterly it appears to have served as a laundry-house with the original airing-loft then being used for drying.
Another provincial tannery, having characteristic louvred frontage and a well-preserved airing-loft with tenter-rails, has been noted at Mill Street, Ayr.
Information from ‘Monuments of Industry: An Illustrated Historical Record’, (1986).
