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Getting some buildings on the layout is a big step forward, now you can really start to visualize how things will look.

Depending on how you want the main grain warehouse to look, might I suggest the Walthers flour mill kit? It's a concrete framed building rather than brick, but the kit is adaptable in many ways and can create a monster building when stretched out. Although designed for US layouts it fits in on a UK based layout very well, take a look at Millway dock on here for ideas.

Another suggestion would be the plant no4, I've used that a few times...

@simon b  Thanks for these suggestions; I must have missed them because they are not called 'warehouse' or 'factory' in the model title.  Please can you tell me where you got the (six?) plain, 3-storey panels to the right of the gable-ended 'Plant No. 4'; do they come with this kit?  The windows look rather better than my Skytrex efforts, although I do not think the gable-ended elevation itself looks quite right for the U.K.

If the panels can not be obtained separately, I am tempted to buy a Walthers Concrete Grain Elevator and the Flour Mill to fill the adjacent three feet.  The conceit perhaps being the original, Victorian, warehouse/ factory was demolished in the 1950's, bar the small extension remaining, to permit a change of use to a modern rail-served terminal.  The declining 'international provender' ekes out a trade in the increasingly-derelict floors next-door with its eccentric goods-lift, soon to become a victim of the early 1980's recession.  There endeth the proud name of 'Chunnilal and Malcolm, East Indies Factors'!

Thank you again for taking the time to consider this post, and bringing the kits to my attention.  I am much obliged to you.

Buckle up kids, cos here we go......

The 6x3 brick window section comes as part of the plant no4 kit, although sold as a low relief building you get quite alot in the kit. You get the gable end section,a pair of 1x3 brick window sections, and the large 6x3 brick window section. To make the gable end more UK looking I have cut out the center windows of the upper floors and made wooden loading doors on all three floors, as well as a hoist above the top window. That makes it look more like a plastic version of the metcalfe kit. One thing to note is that the plant no4 kit is actually a low relief version of the Greatland Sugar Refining kit (933-3092), if you wanted a larger building with two gable ends and two 6x3 walls.

Another kit worth a mention is Chapion meat packing (933-3048), which when stretched out can make a building over 24" long.

You can see the sizes of of some of these parts in this picture below, the plant no4 is on the right and the pair of large 2x8 panels in the middle are from the champion packing kit. On the left is the 6x3 wall you are interested in.

The concrete flour mill kit can be had in low relief as "Centennial Mills" (933-3160), or the full building as "Red wing milling co" (933-3026)

I made a huge corner filler with it, and still had parts left over.

If you want to shunt vans underneath a warehouse there is also "Heritage furniture" (933-3164) low relief kit.

And one more pic of the champion kit in use as a warehouse.

I've used a couple of walthers industrial buildings with a couple of additions on my 60s layout quayside 

Dear @simon b and @russ p , Again, thank you for taking the time to help with my query and giving such useful advice.  I did a quick plot of the 3'x7.5" space available last night and decided upon (from left to right) the imposing 'Concrete Grain Elevator' but rotated so the silos are on the left of the elevation - thanks for @russ p 's photos confirming there is a loading 'porch' on both sides - and the 'Flour Mill' 'doubled' using its back wall.

But now I am not so sure!  Stretching out the 'Greatland Sugar Refiners' building would retain my preferred brick aesthetic and a Victorian look - excellent idea of converting the central openings on the gable-ended elevations to loading doors with a beam and pulley above, as seen on such buildings everywhere.  Or there is the 1930's(?) option of the 'Champion Meat Packing Plant' which retains my preferred brick.  I do like the sight of watching wagons shunting under a cantilevered building, so will try and model a more 'open' porch for the grain silos by taking the side off.

More choices, more decisions!  Thanks so much to you both for these contributions and photos; I hope they will be of as great a help to others in the future as me, and I will keep you posted on my progress thanks to you.

I forgot to mention in the original post I changed the windows to Indo-Saracenic 'cusped arches', with which I admit I am pleased.  Look closely at the elevation, and you can see the changes I hope.

Found some Wills corrugated asbestos/ plastic yester-day at Stafford to finish off the canopy, so I have been rushing to add more detail.  Made a lift tower and flat roof - but did not think to buy any tiles to make a wood-framed apex - and added the corner and side buttress on the plain end.  Anyway, the Faarsii/Persian frieze looks adequate, I hope.  Sorry my nasta'liiq was not up to the challenge.

No prizes for translating the Faarsii...

Thanks for giving this your interest.

Thanks to the suggestions to be found on RMWeb and a couple of colleagues, I knocked out three Brighton Pavilion-style 'onion domes' in Milliput last week :

They need proper masonry bases modelling underneath, but I was pleasantly surprised at the result.  Next task is the pitched roof, hidden behind the parapet.  Off to B. & Q. next weekend, to use 4mm. sq. wood with 'lead' covering to space out two Wills sheets of slate tiling to match the width.

Having discovered the joys of Milliput, I am now churning out sack loads of different sizes for pallets.  Such simple pleasures...

At last, I think the roof is complete, bar weathering.  But this is needed on the whole building anyway, plus some down-pipes.  Now for another project, I hope, and nothing to do with slates.

I hope others agree it has that 'Brighton Pavilion' look.