Drumdryan Quarry Powder Magazine is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 2010. Gunpowder magazine.
Drumdryan Quarry Powder Magazine
- WRENN ID
- far-spandrel-vale
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 2010
- Type
- Gunpowder magazine
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Probably before 1852. Rare example of steeply vaulted, Gothic arched, rectangular-plan former gunpowder magazine at Drumdryan Quarry. Dressed ashlar with ashlar roof. Long side elevations battered (to approximately doorhead height) with vaulted roof springing from full width dripstone.
FURTHER DESCRIPTION: gabled entrance elevation to E with remains of metal-framed door at centre and small slit ventilator above with iron grille; similar W elevation without door. Long low side elevations below dripstones, that to S with small indirect ventilator opening close to ground, that to N with large area of broken wall at centre.
INTERIOR: (seen 2010). Rows of small holes (evidence of possible wall-mounted racking) and single small ventilator opening at S wall.
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