Grant's Shoe Factory, Hill Road, Arbroath is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 2000. Factory.
Grant's Shoe Factory, Hill Road, Arbroath
- WRENN ID
- dim-slate-bone
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 2000
- Type
- Factory
- OS grid reference
- NO 646 408
- Coordinates
- 56.55822, -2.57601
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Grant's Shoe Factory, built around 1882, is a two-storey factory with a piend roof and 15 bays, featuring a three-stage corner tower on the right. There is a single-storey corner block facing East Newgate, which has remains of a small tower that may have been a water tower on the outer right. To the rear, there are two long buildings with pitched roofs, now in a ruinous condition. The factory is constructed from coursed local red sandstone with polished grey sandstone dressings.
On the northeast elevation facing Hill Road, there is a base course, cill courses, and an eaves course. The building features long and short quoins, and the windows are adorned with moulded architraves. There are round-arched entrances with prominent voussoirs located in the fifth bay from the right and the sixth bay from the left. A modern entrance has been added to the ground floor of the piend-roofed tower on the right, which also includes a bipartite window with a bracketed cill on the first stage and a decorative oculus on the upper stage.
The northwest elevation facing East Newgate has key-blocked oculi in the gables of the single-storey buildings at the rear. The windows are currently boarded as of 2001, and the roof is covered with grey slates, featuring ventilators.
Local climate
Grant's Shoe Factory, Hill Road, Arbroath sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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