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Latitude: 56.5683 / 56°34'5"N
Longitude: -4.7067 / 4°42'24"W
OS Eastings: 233792
OS Northings: 745093
OS Grid: NN337450
Mapcode National: GBR GCRC.2T5
Mapcode Global: WH2JF.N5XJ
Entry Name: Braclaich,deserted township & field system
Scheduled Date: 23 December 1977
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4032
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: settlement, including deserted, depopulated and townships
Location: Glenorchy and Inishail
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Oban North and Lorn
Traditional County: Argyllshire
David Cunningham, Harbour Engineer, with Charles Ower as Consulting Engineer; ironwork by John Stewart and Sons, Irvine, 1874.
Single-storey brick and timber-clad transit sheds on the N side of Victoria Dock with 4 party wall divisions.
N ELEVATION: brick with ashlar base and eaves courses. Rusticated quoins, alternately vermiculated, to timber sliding doors with malleable iron lintels. Square-section cast-iron rain water goods. Sheds 29 and 30 have been painted.
S ELEVATION: colonnade of cylindrical cast-iron columns with mask rainwaterheads (reputedly the face of David Cunningham). Timber sliding doors the entire length of the wall (except a part of Shed 26 which has modern brickwork) under malleable iron girders.
W GABLE: timber-boarded, now painted. E gable adjoins the Clocktower warehouse (built 1877).
Slate roofs, without skylights. 3 brick party walls.
Interior: wrought-iron tie roofs. Stone set floors.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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