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Harbour warehouse, still in use, dated 1905 but possibly incorporating earlier fabric. It was formerly of the Brechin Agricultural Product Company. Occupying a prominent harbourside location, the building is a long two-storey warehouse, constructed of grey/brown sandstone with ashlar dressings. The pitched roof is covered in grey slate, piended to the north-east. At the south-west there is a curvilinear ornamental gable and raised coped skews with double skewputts. Fenestration is irregular. The south-west elevation faces the harbour and has large roller-shutter doors at the ground-floor. Within the gablehead is a circular opening with a segmental hoodmould. A panel above is inscribed '1905'. The north-west elevation has three roller-shutter doors and various blocked openings to the ground and first floor. Two vehicular openings were enlarged during the later 20th century. A warehouse was first proposed for this site by engineer James Leslie in his 1836 plan for Montrose Harbour (adjacent to the proposed wet dock, completed by 1843). The rectangular-plan footprint of a lime store warehouse is shown on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map (surveyed, 1861) and the present building may incorporate some fabric from this building. Despite some later alteration and some loss of fabric, the warehouse remains a good surviving example of an industrial building that relates to the development and historic function of Montrose Harbour. This is one of only a handful of 19th – early 20th Century warehouses which still exist in Montrose, and with its prominent quayside location and unusual gable (fronting on to the harbour) no.4 Meridian Street is probably the best surviving example in the town.
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NO75NW0046 - 4 MERIDIAN ST, MONTROSE