Furnace And Foundry, Works Building With Smithy, Great North Of Scotland Locomotive Works, Harlaw Road, Inverurie

William Pickersgill, 1898-1900. Single storey, rectangular plan M-gabled building with some small later additions. Steel framed construction; predominantly Aberdeen-bond granite cladding; coursed / snecked squared rubble to S elevation; corrugated metal cladding to E end of N elevation. Eaves cornice; raking cornices to gables.

W ELEVATION: 6-bay elevation. To 1st, 2nd and 5th bays from left, 2-leaf doors (timber-boarded to far left, metal to remainder) in large openings (opening to far left a later alteration from an original window); moulded lintels; 8-paned (vertically divided) overlights. To 3rd, 4th and 6th bays from left, large 48-pane (vertically orientated) windows with central timber mullion and broad moulded transom. Glazed gables (vertically divided).

N ELEVATION: to left of granite-clad section, 7 large windows of varying sizes; all with vertically orientated glazing patterns; broad moulded transoms to 5 largest windows; additional central timber mullions to 2 windows to right. To right, small single storey mono-pitch extension with brick ridge stack and tall granite gable-end stack to right.

E ELEVATION: 6-bay elevation. To 2nd and 5th bays from left, large openings, largely blocked with timber-boarding, with small sliding doors; 8-paned (vertically divided) overlights. To 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th bays, large 48-pane (vertically orientated) windows with central timber mullion and broad moulded transom. Timber-boarded gables.

S ELEVATION: predominantly blank elevation; to centre, single storey pitched-roofed extension.

GLAZING etc: M-pitched roof; predominantly corrugated metal roof; dark grey slate to N section of roof and extensions; to N pitch, continuous rooflight strips to ridge and lower pitch to both sides.

INTERIOR: not seen 2003. Light steel roof trusses.