Timex Factory, Harrison Road, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 September 1989. Factory. 7 related planning applications.
Timex Factory, Harrison Road, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- scattered-brass-soot
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 September 1989
- Type
- Factory
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bennet, Beard and Williams, 1946-7, full length achieved circa 1960. Clock and watch factory with long horizontal Modern facades. Yellow stock brick cladding on rubble-built base. Set on the crest of a hill with lawns sloping to the S.
S ELEVATION: single storey manufacturing block has contoinuous band of windows with concrete mullions. High coped parapet. Projecting red rubble built entrance approached by steps to right with flat roof and cantilevered canopy. Taller flat-roofed office block at E, 4-light window asymmetrically placed to balance "TIMEX" sign.
E ELEVATION: office stepped down at left. Horizontal band of windows partly infilled and reduced to 3 single lights. Angled works entrance set back to right: original 6-leaf doors beneath concrete canopy. Porthole to left.
Windows: most have original metal framed glazing pattern.
Low rubble-built garden wall runs from the office entrance to Harrison Road, with semi-circular bow to accommodate flag-pole.
Detailed Attributes
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