Sites and Monument Record: Carron Co Office Block (SMR 101)

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A large office block in Scottish Baronial style fronting Carron Road - it was demolished 1990. As part of the wholesale re-organisation of the ironworks a new office block was constructed along the north side of Carron Road to act as an imposing facade for the works and to screen the industrial buildings behind. The two-storey building was 53 bays long, measuring c190m by 13m.The overall design was a weak Scottish Baronial of the Stirling School with five slightly advanced crowstepped gablets, a central pyramid spired tower and rock-faced snecked sandstone rubble used on the front face. The tower hung over a segmental pend arch. It was designed by Robert Baldie of Glasgow, 1874-1876. The 2 storey facade, with attic, had a slated roof with continuous roof-lights and piended ends. It was imposing by its sheer mass and had a greater degree of ornamentation in the centre. The central 19 bays possessed moulded string courses, plain parapets and 5 slightly advanced crowstepped gables. The central gable rose to form a tower - starting with a tall deep roll-moulded segmental pend arch, with a triple window on the first floor, then armorial and date panels surmounted by a square clock turret with black and gold faces and capped by a bell-cast pyramidal roof. To either side of the pend are insets containing items from the long and glorious history of the Carron Company. An iron lintel from the first blast furnace on the site, dated 1760, on the right. On the opposite side is part of a cylinder cast in 1766 for James Watt, the steam engine designer. The armorial panel above contains the company´s crest with its crossed cannons and phoenix rising from the flames with the company motto above, `Esto Perpetua´ (Let it Endure Forever). The datestone has 1876 in monogram. It is clasped by the slight corbelling of the clock tower. The inset square panels of which have moulded circular roundels containing the clock faces. This stage has a dentilled cornice and canon-mouldings at each corner and is surmounted by a weathervane. Smaller gables at 18th, 23rd, 31st and 36th bays had segmentally arched moulded doorways to 23rd and 31st bipartites to 18th and 36th all with hood moulds and label stops, bipartites at 1st and asymmetrically placed chimney shafts. Intermediate bays had bipartite ground floor windows and single light windows at 1st floor, all moulded; the outer 17 bays each side had simpler single light windows at both levels with anchor plates between the ground floor ones. The back of the building was finished in brick and supported fire escapes. After demolition, in 1990, stub walls were left as buttresses to the central tower and the side walls were cement rendered. In 1992 single storey additions were provided to flank it in the form of guardrooms. These are of yellow concrete blocks with low-arched lead roofs. They are tied to the tower by low wing walls, of the same blocks, with narrow gaps filled with iron grills. The southern room has a corner window; the northern a window in its east gable.

Sites and Monument Record: Carron Co Office Block (SMR 101)

Late Victorian renaissance, red ashlar, 4-window straight main frontage, bipartite window on curved eastern angle; cornice and blocking course, slated. Ground floor shops. It was the site of the Livingstone of Westquarter's Lodging House, the grounds of which may have given rise to the name of "Pleasance" for this part of Falkirk.

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Known also as Almond castle (see 204). L shaped tower-house, with later additions to NE and SE faces. Possibly tower-house is 15th century, but no certain evidence exists to confirm this. Additions are of two separate building phases dating to the late 16th Century. Notable internal features are the remains of a piscina in the 2nd floor of the main block, and is set in the E wall, and was most likely part of a private chapel. It may also be possible that the chaplain served the local community.

Sites and Monument Record: Almond Castle (Haining Castle) (SMR 204)

This weir lies to the SW of the Ironworks. It is arranged with the outer face of the arc facing upstream, and with a shallow-sloped face on the downstream side. Straight weir about 90ft long. The local angling association have removed the centre to allow salmon up river, and in so doing have destroyed the structural integrity of the monument. Built for Carron Co c1812. Gravity weir across the River Carron with bullnosed ashlar shallow sloped face oin downstream side.

Sites and Monument Record: Carron Works Weir (SMR 240)

This bridge joined the Carron Works to the main railway network. It entered the works at a high level, the large arch over the river and the smaller one over the road to W Carron being continued as a series of arches within the compound. The river arch is the only one remaining. It has channelled bullnosed ashlar voussoirs with dressed margins, and snecked rubble spandrels and wing walls spandrels strengthened with old rails, arranged radially. Road span to N removed. The springer stone for the small arch on the north and south ends has the date 1860 carved on it. 2 span segmental arched masonry bridge. The pier on line with the boundary wall of the Carron Iron works was removed in 1998 to widen the road into Carron Phoenix.

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Three blocks of three-storey shops with flats on the upper floors. The northern block, on the corner of Garrison Place, has a balustraded parapet.

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1906. Two storey red sandstone building on the west side of Lumley Street. The wall head has two Dutch gablets with obelisks to either side and a balustrade. Each gablet bears a coat-of-arms. Below the moulded eaves course is a string coarse made up of alternate roundels and rectangles in rough work. The first floor fenestration is symmetrical with a central two-light window and two four-light windows. The ground floor has a five-light window to the left, and a two-light window beside the main doorway. On the right side of this doorway is a smaller door, which echoes the form of the two-light window. All of these ground floor features have moulded hoods with denticulated design. The main doorway Has fluted engaged pilasters. Above the panelled door is a semicircular fanlight. There is simple chamfered plinth course.

Sites and Monument Record: 18-20 Lumley Street, Grangemouth (SMR 1481)

Along the north side of Station Brae from the La Scala cinema to the port entrance is a range of buildings with ashlar sandstone facades. The central block has a pediment with the date 1914 and balustrades.

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