The Port House, designed by James Pearson Alison, is an architecturally distinctive building with a cast iron structure and three gabled front elevation with large window openings. Iron had increasingly been used in Scottish buildings from around 1860 onwards, allowing for buildings with increased open floor space, fewer supporting walls and a larger ratio of glass in the building façade; ideal for shopfronts. The use of such designs was however very unusual outside big cities and the Port House, with its large plate glass windows, bright, open interiors and external "renaissance" detail is one of the earliest examples of its type. The building is now multi use with co-working and meeting spaces on the 1st floor a composite of rooms on the ground floor available for flexible lease and a large open plan space on the 2nd floor available for flexible lease.
Floor number: 1st Floor, Ste 1
