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Braclaich,deserted township & field system

A Scheduled Monument in Oban North and Lorn, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

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

Description

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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