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Glasgow, 298-306 Clyde Street, Custom House

Custom House (19th Century)

Site Name Glasgow, 298-306 Clyde Street, Custom House

Classification Custom House (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Customs House; Procurator Fiscal's Office

Canmore ID 44269

Site Number NS56SE 133

NGR NS 58847 64882

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44269

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Glasgow, City Of
  • Parish Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District City Of Glasgow
  • Former County Lanarkshire

Architecture Notes

NS56SE 133 58847 64882

REFERENCE;

Architect: John Dobson 1817 (presumably never built)

John Taylor of Taylor & Cresy 1840

See also PSA photographs for underground tunnel, Procurator Fiscal's Office, Dixon Street: G/6211/1 - 15

Activities

Modification (1873)

Internal alterations carried out by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson.

Watching Brief (18 December 2018 - 1 November 2019)

NS 58855 64873 Archaeological monitoring was carried out at Dixon Street/306 Clyde Street, Glasgow. This work revealed no previously unknown archaeological features or material culture. The remnants of an outbuilding of the Custom House, and possible walls of one of the premises of the former Glasswork factory which occupied the site prior 1840, were uncovered and recorded.

Archive: NRHE

Funder: Gardiner & Theobold

Anthony Byledbal – GUARD Archaeology Ltd

(Source: DES Vol 21)

Photographic Survey (18 January 2018)

The former Customs House was recorded prior to alteration and conversion (2018).

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