Drainage Terminal And Valve House, Mearns Quay And Torry Quay is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 July 2007. Drainage terminal, valve house.
Drainage Terminal And Valve House, Mearns Quay And Torry Quay
- WRENN ID
- sacred-sill-aspen
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 July 2007
- Type
- Drainage terminal, valve house
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1906. Pair of intervisible City Works drainage buildings with Classical detailing situated on Mearns Quay and Torry Quay on opposite sides of harbour at entrance to the River Dee. Polished grey granite ashlar. Inscribed 'City of Aberdeen Main Drainage Works' above door.
FURTHER DESCRIPTION: Torry Quay Drainage Terminal: single storey, octagonal plan sewage pump house. Leaded dome atop deep recessed timber ventilation course with segmental-arched louvred vents. Round-arched insets to N, S and E elevations, each with pair of narrow round-arched openings. Mearns Quay Valve House: Single storey rectangular-plan with shouldered pedimented gables. Moulded cill course, semicircular openings, round-arch moulded eaves course. Segmental-arch pedimented doorpiece to W elevation; timber paneled door with arcaded moulding to upper part.
Grey slate to valve house with segmental-arched ridge vent. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
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