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Fort William, Seaview Terrace, Laundry Building
Laundry (19th Century)
Site Name Fort William, Seaview Terrace, Laundry Building
Classification Laundry (19th Century)
Canmore ID 239542
Site Number NN07SE 31
NGR NN 09983 73599
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/239542
- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmallie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
1-12 Seaview Terrace, 1890s. Former railway workers' houses, three blocks of four flats in a stepped terrace of polychrome brick, prettier than those at Mallaig, with gabletted porches to their front elevations and door canopies on decorative cast iron brackets to their rear. At the terrace's end, the rare survival of a communal laundry building with distinctive flue.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
Single-storey; centralised square plan containing 4 units each with flue which combine at centre in diagonally set brick stack with 4 chimney cans. 2 bipartites on NW and SE elevations; 2 doors on SW and NE elevations. Similar polychrome brick banding. Slate roof; stack set above louvred apex vent.
Built as a laundry building to service the adjacent polychrome brick terrace that were probably built as railway workers' housing as part of the West Highland Railway, the Helensburgh to Fort William line opening in 1894. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)
