Manager's Drawing Office, Great North Of Scotland Locomotive Works, Harlaw Road, Inverurie is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 July 2003. Office. 5 related planning applications.

Manager's Drawing Office, Great North Of Scotland Locomotive Works, Harlaw Road, Inverurie

WRENN ID
dim-belfry-fog
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 July 2003
Type
Office
Address
Manager's Drawing Office, Great North Of Scotland Locomotive Works, Harlaw Road, Inverurie, AB51 4FH
OS grid reference
NJ 772 219
Coordinates
57.28784, -2.37906
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Manager's Drawing Office at the Great North of Scotland Locomotive Works in Inverurie was designed by William Pickersgill between 1902 and 1905. This rectangular building features two storeys, a basement at the rear, and an attic, situated on a sloping site. It is a large structure with modern additions and linking sections at the rear that are not included in the listing. The design incorporates a mix of classical and other detailing, including projecting skews and skewputts. The building is primarily constructed of squared, coursed granite rubble with ashlar dressings. Notable architectural elements include a base course, a first-floor cill course, a double eaves band, and an eaves cornice, with predominantly regular fenestration.

On the southwest elevation, there is a four-bay facade featuring a projecting flat-roofed single-storey entrance hall at the centre. The ground floor of this section has a timber-panelled door with narrow margin lights set within an opening that has a shaped lintel. Above this, there is an open-topped pediment flanked by finialled consoles, breaking the eaves cornice. The attic floor displays a gable on the left and a long pilastered dormer on the right.

The northwest elevation consists of six bays, with a corbel table located beneath the eaves band on the right side. The northeast elevation has three bays, featuring a full-height canted bay window on the left, with projecting link sections to an extension at the ground and first floors, and a gable on the right side of the roof. The southeast elevation is characterized by an M-gabled design.

The glazing throughout the building predominantly consists of single-pane windows in timber sash and case style, along with several rooflights.

Local climate

Manager's Drawing Office, Great North Of Scotland Locomotive Works, Harlaw Road, Inverurie receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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