Glasgow, Windmillcroft Quay, Clyde Place, Transit Shed

Description:

James Deas (CNT Resident Engineer). Contractors: W. end,

Laidlow and Sons 1877; E end, P and W McLellan, 1878. New

roof 1914.

1-storey transit shed. S wall brick with ashlar top and

bottom courses. Wooden sliding doors with wrought-iron

lintels and raised and fielded stone quoins. Some original

iron lampholders, door mechanisms and drainpipe heads

incorporating a mask of Neptune. N wall wooden sliding doors,

and cast-iron rectangular section pillars, topped by

rainwater heads with Neptune's mask, some replaced by steel

girders. Roof altered after 1914 fire in Kingston Dock to

corrugated iron with small skylights and steel ties. Floor:

cobbles and stone slabs.

E end has lower king-post truss timber roof beams, slates and

an internal cast-iron pillar by "P and W Maclellan, Clutha

Works, 1878". Another corner pillar is topped by Neptune with

2 dolphins.

Cobbled quayside with mooring posts and rails for travelling

crane.

References:

SR Archives.

T-CN/369

T-CN/14/369

T-CN/14/379

Notes:

Originally "the Australian Shed" built 1842-3, the biggest in

Glasgow, enlarged 1877-8. Later the departure point for the

Bristol Channel Steamer. Travelling Crane by Babcock and

Wilcox, Renfrew 1908, originally steam, now electric. The W

part of the shed has been demolished.

Information from Historic Scotland, 17 June 1986.