Montrose, 2-6 Murray Street, Cabinetmaker's Workshop
Factory (19th Century)
Site Name Montrose, 2-6 Murray Street, Cabinetmaker's Workshop
Classification Factory (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) A Grieve Ltd; Townhead Cabinet Works
Canmore ID 36276
Site Number NO75NW 60
NGR NO 7149 5836
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36276
- Council Angus
- Parish Montrose
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
Publication Account (2013)
a) A plasterers workshop showing the artistry that was achievable in the 1880s in Portland cement, coloured in the building facing a pend that has a magnificent neo classical pediment. Facing the street the rendered treatment has a more flowing gothic style. Burness and Sons used their premises as advertisement; now a Shoe shop.
b) A three-storey canvas factory of c1820-40 in which the ground floor and perhaps first floor held the handlooms, and the top floor was a warping loft at its north end, the louvers subsequently filled with brick. The combination of brick and two types of stone - whin and sandstone - that weathered very differently led to the decision to render the whole building when it was converted into a hotel
M Watson, 2013
