Dysart Harbour
Harbour (19th Century)
Site Name Dysart Harbour
Classification Harbour (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) New Harbour
Canmore ID 53993
Site Number NT39SW 21
NGR NT 30200 92800
NGR Description Centred NT 30200 92800
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/53993
- Council Fife
- Parish Kirkcaldy And Dysart
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Kirkcaldy
- Former County Fife
NT39SW 21 centred 30200 92800
Location formerly cited as NT 302 928.
(Location cited as NT 302 928). Harbour, 17th Century and later. Harbour built for coal shipment, with 2 rubble piers forming an outer basin, and an inner, gated basin formed in 1831.
J R Hume 1976.
Site recorded by Maritime Fife during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, Kincardine to Fife Ness 1996
See also NT39SW 70 Dysart, The Shore
Information from Architecture Catalogue Slip:
PLANS:
Kirkcaldy Museum and Library. Harbour improvements:-
1829 - plan of harbour
1829 - plan of sluices
1830 - plans of drawbridge
Undated plans - dock gates and Harbour
Dysart Harbour
Repairs and addition to East Head
Advertisement for tenders, 1803
(Edinburgh Evening Courant, March 26, 1803)
William Sibbald
Roughly U-plan tidal basin with harbour mouth to S (at rounded end) and slipway to N; W arm with jetties projecting at W and NW forming mouth to almost rhomboidal-plan wet dock at NW. E pier with high ashlar sea wall to SE. Harbour walls largely ashlar, parts in vertical courses; stone sets to slipways. (ref: Historic Scotland)
Photographic Survey (October 1964 - November 1964)
Photographic survey of buildings in Dysart by the Scottish National Buildings Record/Ministry of Work in October and November 1964.
Conservation (June 2007 - July 2007)
A conservation management plan was conducted on behalf of Fife council to address key remedial issues associated with the erosion of the East Pier at Dysart Harbour.
