Building record MAB7262 - HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICES, PITGAVENY STREET, LOSSIEMOUTH

Harbour Master Offices, which were built in two construction phases: 1851 for the northern 6 bays, and 1860-70 for the southern 4 bays including harbour master's office and return elevation to Commerce Street.

Harbour Master Offices, which were built in two construction phases: 1851 for the northern 6 bays, and 1860-70 for the southern 4 bays including harbour master's office and return elevation to Commerce Street. Long east facing range (to harbour) 3-storey, 10-bay, returning with bowed angle, and single gable bay to Commerce Street. Rubble, with tooled ashlar and tooled rubble dressings. Blocked entrance (now window) in bowed angle, corniced entrance with flanking windows, mural barometer recess and regular fenestration. Warehouse ranges extend continuous with, and to north of, harbour master's office (now incorporating Fisheries Museum). Nine segmental-headed ground floor entrances, some flanked by shallow circular mural recesses for lifebelts (1860-70) and those to northern bays with narrow shuttered windows (1851). All with double-leaf plank doors except that at extreme north end which is blocked. Regular fenestration, low in second floor, breaking wallhead as gabletted dormers above harbour master's office. Corrugated asbestos roof to north 6 bays, slightly higher slated roof with two coped ridge stacks at south 4-bay. At the rear, four rubble forestairs serve the first and second floors, oversailing the ground floor and some first floor doorways as porches. Low single storey extension at north with corrugated asbestos roof. The Fisheries Museum includes a memorial room, opened in 1989.

Period Notes
Listed 26/01/1971. Northern section built in 1851 and the southern section in 1860-70.

MORAY BURIAL GROUND RESEARCH GROUP, 2011, MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: LOSSIEMOUTH CEMETERY AND OTHER LOCAL MEMORIALS (Bibliographic reference). SAB7653.

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