Tayport, 27 Queen Street, Drill Hall
Drill Hall (First World War), Drill Hall (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Tayport, 27 Queen Street, Drill Hall
Classification Drill Hall (First World War), Drill Hall (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Canmore ID 331505
Site Number NO42NE 178
NGR NO 45756 28455
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/331505
- Council Fife
- Parish Ferry-port-on-craig
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
The drill hall on the corner of Queen Street and King Street, then the very edge of Tayport, is mapped and labelled "drill hall" on the 2nd (1893) and 3rd (1914) epoch 1:2500 OS maps. The drill hall comprises a Victorian house, a two-storey front block, with a double window to the left of the door, a window over the door, and a two-storey bay window to the right. The building is of coursed rubble with painted stone quoins, window and door surrounds and bays. The rear of the building has a two-storey harled extension. This building is now a dwelling.
Another building of the drill hall complex occupied the other end of the 62m-long building plot. This survives as a rubble-walled, slate-roofed shed, with a garage door to the street with an attic door above; this is now an office.
Between the two buildings a long, narrow structure shown on the maps may have been a firing range. More recent brick-built garages now occupy much of the area between the two buildings.
In 1914 this building was drill station for "C" Company, Highland Cylist Battalion.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 25 June 2013.
Project (March 2013 - September 2013)
A project to characterise the quantity and quality of the Scottish resource of known surviving remains of the First World War. Carried out in partnership between Historic Scotland and RCAHMS.
