Ferry Pier And Terminal Including Stone Setts, Boat Road, Newport-On-Tay

Ferry Pier and Terminal, Newport-On-Tay

The ferry pier was designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1823. It consists of a ramped ashlar pier with stone setts. A central protecting dividing stone wall is surmounted by a timber shelter wall with decorative bowed cast-iron supports. A lantern leading light is positioned at the top. Slips are located on each side of the central wall.

The ferry terminal building on Boat Road dates to around 1878. It is a single-storey, four-bay rectangular-plan building with flanking semicircular canopies. The structure is constructed in blue painted brick with white painted droved ashlar window surrounds, long and short quoins, and a cornice. The base course is black painted. A clock is set within a circular opening at the central apex, surmounted by a ball finial.

The south elevation contains a central block formerly used as a waiting room and ticket office, with four windows to the right. These windows have chamfered and lugged surrounds with corbelled cills. A central clock above is set within star tracery. Two further windows and a door are positioned to the left return, with a later inserted first-floor window and cornice. The right return has two windows and a door, also with later inserted ground and first-floor windows and cornice. Full-height canopies flank the central section. The left canopy remains open and is supported by a cast-iron column with a fluted base and foliate detail to the capital and bracket, supporting a curved wrought-iron roof truss and curved timber bargeboard. Three further columns and roof trusses are positioned within the structure. The wrought-iron roof girders have geometric shapes punched into them. Stone corbels to the east support the trusses. The right canopy is bricked up with a large full-height modern corrugated door for boat and machinery access. A cast-iron column to the far right is partially obscured, with a decorative bracket supporting the roof truss and bargeboard. Roof trusses and corbels match those described previously. Cast-iron columns are covered by a later breeze-block wall to the east.

The east elevation features timber boarding to the canopied section, with a doorway and remains of an adjoining building within the elevation.

A ruinous latrine block on wooden stilts is situated adjacent to the ferry terminal. It is constructed in red brick with white and blue brick used to decorative effect.

The north elevation shows the canopied section to the right, with cast-iron columns slightly obscured by later brick infill. The bracket to the left remains visible. The canopied entrance is blocked by a full-height modern corrugated door. The central brick building has two large round windows at first-floor height with radiating astragals and an advanced bracketed hood or support between them. A central coped stack is present. An advanced M-gabled three-bay brick extension is positioned at ground-floor level, with a window to each bay featuring lugged and chamfered surrounds and corbelled cills. The window to the left is bricked up. Ball finials top each gable. The left canopy remains open, with a modern corrugated sheet structure attached to it.

The building features four-pane timber sash-and-case windows with horns to the original windows. The central building and seaward section are covered with pitched slate roofs, with the central building and a seaward M-gabled roof. The semicircular canopies have slate roofs with central glazed panels, timber boarded to the interior.

The interior of the central building has been modernised with a twentieth-century mezzanine floor inserted. A circular clock inscribed "Tay Ferries, Rattray Dundee" is present. Original cornices remain.

Stone setts are laid to the north slip and yard and to the south forecourt of the ferry terminal building.