Verdant Mill, West Henderson's Wynd, Dundee, Dundee, Dundee

Entry Name: Verdant Mill, West Henderson's Wynd, Dundee

Listing Name: 27 West Henderson's Wynd and Return Elevation to Milne Street, Verdant Works

Listing Date: 18 May 1987

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361310

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25140

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Verdant Works
Scotland's Jute Museum @ Verdant Works

ID on this website: 200361310

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: West End

Traditional County: Angus

Tagged with: Museum Independent museum

Description

1833 flax mill with mid 19th century ancillary
buildings. a. 1833 2-storey and attic 18-by 3-bay
rubble-built mill. Elevation to Miln Street 18-bay, with
corner bay occupied by a square section chimney built
into the body of the mill, stone to cornice, brick beyond
with an iron tie-band and top 20' removed.
N elevation: window and blocked door to boiler house. 2
tall roundheaded engine house windows with 2 small 1st
floor windows above left again. 13 bays to E are 2-storeys
of 8-pane sash and case windows, with 2 windows replaced
for new entrance. Cornice, and parapet. Slate mansard roof
with continuous skylight and dormer over lift. Stone
party wall between boiler house section and the main mill.
Elevation to West Henderson's Wynd: Gable with chimney
at left, blind ground floor, 3-bay 1st floor, cornice and
3 multi-paned sash and case windows in mansard gable.
S elevation 18 bay with 3 arched bays at W for ground
floor boiler house with 1 window and a hoist door above.
Other openings in ground floor wall, circa 1846-51, for
access from preparing room, some shouldered, some with
cast-iron beams. 1st floor sash and case windows;
corniced and parapet.
Interior: a central row of iron columns with triangular
brackets and saddles, N row of subsidiary columns, 4
with brackets, and S row wooden posts support cross-wise
timber beams and wooden ceiling. Engine house has wheel
pit, wall-boxes and wooden boarded walls and ceiling.
1st floor a single row of iron columns carries lengthwise
wooden beam, with subsidiary cross-beams on wooden posts.
Plastered ceiling. Attic has 2 rows of iron columns
carrying gothic traceried cast-iron roof, possibly a
rebuild after an 1852 fire on Upper Dens Mill lines.
b. Preparing room, circa 1846-51, single storey with
delicate cast-iron roof.
c. Batching rooms E section 1830s, becoming L-plan in
1846-51. Single-storey with iron columns and wooden roof.
2-storey 5-bay front to yard with ground floor doors,
external stone stair to 1st floor, and slate M-roof,
added in 1860s. Iron columns and wooden floors.
d Office, 1830s, 2-storey 3-bay with 2-bay extension
into ground floor of storehouse fronting West Henderson's
Wynd. 12-pane sash and case windows, etched at ground floor.
Slate roof with party wall and 3 ridge stacks.
"Verdant Works" mosaic in doorway. N bay lodge has
balustraded wooden counter. Office has late 19th century
wood and glass panelled partitions and a plaster ceiling.
e. 2-storey and attic storehouse, 1851-7, gable to West
Henderson's Wynd. Ground floor 2 office windows and
iron door under iron lintel. 1st floor wooden loading
door. Skewputts and flat-topped finial to gable. 1 1st
floor window to S (rest blocked by D C Thomson's).
Loading doors to yard on both floors. Wooden floors and
attic on iron ground floor columns and wooden 1st floor
posts.
f. Warehouse at SE, 1857-71. M wrought-iron tie-roof
on iron columns. Rubble walls.

Statement of Interest

Flax, later jute and tow, mill, later used for hide

processing. Owned successively by D Lindsay, John Ewan,

Ewan and Young, and Alex Thomson. In situ machines

include Singer and Union Special Sewing machines, Harden

Cutter, Bicket Creasing Machine, some machine tools, and

an early dust extractor in the attic. Late 19th century

office furnishings include secretaries desks, scales,

presses etc.

A complete and picturesque group of buildings.

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