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Summary

Description

Bruce and Hay, dated 1885. 2-storey and basement, 14-bay office block with French Renaissance entrance bay. Red brick with contrasting ashlar sandstone dressings. Base course, cill, lintel and eaves courses, moulded architraves. Cornices to ground floor windows. Channelled quoins.

N ELEVATION: slightly advanced entrance bay to right of centre with distyle in antis porch recess framing broad architraved door, frieze with tablet and paterae; channelled quoins to 1st floor with panelled and blind balustraded apron to bipartite, transomed window with scroll reliefs flanking, further panels and patera to frieze, cornice; French pavilion roof crowning entrance bay with bipartite, pedimented wallhead dormer with scrolls flanking and apex acroterion; acroterion flanking, and louvred, pedimented lucarnes to E and W pitches. Regular fenestration in 7 bays to left and 6 to right (windows to outer right blinded).

E AND W ELEVATIONS: gabled end elevations, each with later single storey additions at ground and oculi in gablehead (louvred to E, blind, above 4 1st floor windows to wider W elevation).

S ELEVATION: bays to left advanced with stair windows to left of centre and canted 4-light window to outer right at ground. Stair in re-entrant angle formed with advanced bays to centre.

Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows. 3 rooflights to front. Grey slates. Ashlar coped skews. Stumps of ridge ventilators. Wallhead polychrome brick stack between outer left bays of N elevation.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1996. Plans show large general office to W at ground with drawing room above, a model room to E at 1st floor with coombed ceiling, braced with cusp-detailed brackets; boarded dadoes (evident on cross sections) with decorative friezes to rails.

Statement of Special Interest

The office was built for David and William Henderson and Co, Engineers and Iron Shipbuilders, Meadowside Granary Docks and Shipbuilding yards.

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