Building record MAB42193 - 19 BRIDGEFIELD, STONEHAVEN

Former joiner's workshop, now in use as a shop and offices, built in the mid to later 19th century and extended in the 1920s by Robert Thomson and Sons.

Former joiner's workshop, now in use as a shop and offices, built in the mid to later 19th century and extended in the 1920s by Robert Thomson and Sons. It is a single storey and raised basement, three-bay, rectangular-plan, piend-roofed shop and workshop with a single storey and attic, three-bay office adjacent to the Carron Water and incorporating a milestone with a re-cut keystone from the 1781 bridge (rebuilt in 1973). The buildings are constructed from snecked, roughly coursed rubble with large stugged red sandstone quoins, red brick on a random rubble basement to the north and timber to the south and west. The grey slate roof has traditional vertical rooflights to the workshop and a coped brick wallhead stack with a can. The east entrance elevation has single-storey bays to the north of centre with a broad multi-pane bipartite window (converted from a door) at the centre and windows abutting the eaves in flanking bays, that to the north over a milestone and an inscribed stone off-set in a niche at the outer north. The bays to the south are two-storey with a part-glazed and boarded timber door and six-pane fanlight to the north, a small window immediately to the south and a broad pend opening with a two-leaf boarded timber door beyond. Above are two canted dormer windows with modillioned cornices in the mansard roof above. The north elevation has five regularly-disposed tripartite windows to the ground floor, with a timber display board to the outer east and a later bay to the outer west. The basement has small horizontal openings. Inside a vestibule has part-glazed timber doors, one with etched glass worded 'OFFICE', and some multi-pane top lights. The shop (a former joiner's workshop) is timber-lined with original nail boxes and cupboards lining the south wall and roof timbers of Oregon pine. There is also a timber-lined wall to the staircase. A commemorative stone from the 1781 bridge is re-cut into the wall, and is worded 'THEOBALD BARCLAY 1150', 'MATHERS 1351 URIE' and formerly read '1647 COND 1781' below, now eroded, which all documents events in the history of the Barclay family who came to Scotland in 1150. This is set below a milestone incised with 'BERVIE 10 / L14 / A14'. A square-section, coped, channelled ashlar pier from the former bridge is in the north-east angle of the building.

Period Notes
Listed 23/03/2006. Built in the mid to later 19th century and extended in the 1920s.

FAS HERITAGE, 2014, STONEHAVEN FLOOD PREVENTION SCHEME: HERITAGE ASSESSMENT (Bibliographic reference). SAB4169.

Record last edited

Feb 1 2023 4:20PM