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Latitude: 56.4606 / 56°27'38"N
Longitude: -2.9798 / 2°58'47"W
OS Eastings: 339720
OS Northings: 730255
OS Grid: NO397302
Mapcode National: GBR Z8V.RR
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.6WB4
Plus Code: 9C8VF26C+63
Entry Name: South Mill, Brown Street, Dundee
Listing Name: 20 Brown Street, and Return Elevations to 8 Guthrie Street, and Session Street, South Mills
Listing Date: 18 May 1987
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361083
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24965
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee, Brown Street, South Mill
ID on this website: 200361083
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: West End
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Architectural structure
2 Flax mills:
(a) Old Mill: circa 1825, with some alterations in
1860s, W elevation to Session St and E elevation to
yard. 2-storey 14-bay rubble-built mill. Party wall
with skewputts and flat-topped finial divides 5 N-
bays, for hackling, from spinning section. Small square
ground floor windows in margins, some blocked or
boarded, 2 altered to doors, and some with original
glazing. Large cast-iron tie-plate. 1st floor larger
windows with altered glazing. N gable has skewputts and
flat-topped finial. E elevation large windows with
aprons at ground floor, some retaining original multi-
paned sash and case windows, others blocked. Some doors
inserted in 1860s and later. Interior: ground floor
a single row of cast-iron columns carrying a wooden
beam. 1st floor, hackling section, 4 timber pillars;
spinning section, iron columns, a cast-iron spiral stair
and a chute from the attic of the New Mill
(b) New Mill, Brown St, begun between 1851 and 1857,
extended in 1864 and 1874-5 3-storey, basement and
attic, 33-by 3-bay rubble built mill. 3-bay advanced
sections pedimented with acroteria, segmental-headed
windows and cornice over 1st floor. 1864 pediment
section has large timber mullioned and transomed engine
house window at 1st floor and large entrance inserted
circa 1930 in place of steam engine. Door at left
leads to original multi-paned wooden framed window
for view of engine, altered to a lodge. N pediment dated
1875, similar but without door or larger window.
Top cornice and N and S gables 3-bay with 3 oculi
and segmental headed window over cornice. Ball finials
missing. Mansard slate roof with 2 party walls behind
pediments.
W elevation similar; 1864 ground floor preparing shed
with ornate cast-iron roof attached to central section.
2 pediments, 1 behind circa 1930 brick lift shaft. All
windows are original wooden-framed top-hoppers.
Interior: basement sub-divided as flax store, and part
a pond Mill fully iron-framed with 2 rows of cast-iron
columns, bracketed for shafting, brick arched ceilings
and stone flagged floors. Engine house has fine internal
arched mullioned and transomed window and wooden
panelled ceiling. New floor. Gearing room in bay to S
retains wallboxes etc for verticial shaft. Cast-iron
gothic attic pendant bosses on 2 rows of clustered
columns. 2 stone stairs.
List excludes brick building and chimney at S, and
modern steel roof linking old and new mills.
Owned by J and W Brown, Brown and Miller, O G Miller
(also of South and East Mills), A J Brough, Cunningham
and Co, South Mills (Flax) Ltd, and has always spun flax
rather than jute. The Old Mill is now the second oldest
in Dundee, with alterations. The New Mill is now the
3rd longest multi-storey mill in Dundee and has a very
fine roof of unique design.
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