Bothy, Fishing Station, Hall Of Tankerness, Tankerness

This is an earlier to mid 19th century group of structures associated with a fishing station at Hall of Tankerness. The complex includes a salt warehouse, a bothy, a curing house, and a pier.

The salt warehouse is a 2-storey, 5-bay rectangular-plan asymmetrical building, originally a gutting shed, with a later pitched-roofed entrance porch added to the left. The south (entrance) elevation has a window at first floor level in the two central bays, a ground floor window in the bay to the left, a window in the gabled entrance porch, a boarded door in the right return, and a ground floor window in the outermost left bay. The north (rear) elevation is irregular, with four bays. It has ground floor windows in the two bays to the left of centre, and ground floor and first floor windows in the two bays to the right of centre, the first floor window being non-aligned. Evidence of a wide, blocked, square-headed doorway is present in the centre bay. The east (side) elevation features a wide, segmental-arched doorway at ground level, a tall, pointed-arched boarded loft door above, and remnants of an iron pulley at the gablehead. The west (side) elevation displays a window set to the left of the gabled elevation at first floor level. The windows are timber sash and case, and fixed. The roof is graded stone slate, with slightly swept eaves, a stone ridge, and rubble, corniced ridge and gablehead stacks. Inside, a timber staircase leads to the first floor, though the remainder of the interior was not fully visible in 1998.

The bothy is a single-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan symmetrical building situated to the west of the main shed. It is harl-pointed rubble. The east (principal) elevation features a doorway with a 2-pane fanlight in the centre bay, with windows flanking each side. The west (rear) elevation has a window in the centre bay and another to the left. The south (side) elevation has a window set to the right of centre, with a gablehead stack above. The windows are mostly 12-pane timber sash and case, although some are broken. It has a graded stone tiled roof, a red clay ridge, harled, corniced gablehead stacks, and thack stanes.

The curing house is a 2-storey, 6-bay rectangular-plan asymmetrical building, originally a boiler house, with a single-storey lean-to addition along the rear (east) elevation. It is constructed of squared rubble. The west (principal) elevation has a window at each floor in the centre bay, flanked to the left by a tall external stack. There is a doorway with a small-pane fanlight at ground level in the bay to the right, a window at each floor in the outermost right bay, two closely set windows at ground level in the bays to the left, and a large window/doorway at first floor level above. The windows are 4- and 12-pane timber sash and case, many of which are broken. The roof is graded stone tiled, with a stone ridge and rubble, corniced gablehead stacks.

The pier is a simple rectangular-plan structure with rubble sides and a flagstone surface. It features three evenly disposed step niches along the west side, central timber bollards, and an upended cannon at the south (seaward) end.