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Douglas Mill, Douglas Street, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4622 / 56°27'43"N

Longitude: -2.9858 / 2°59'8"W

OS Eastings: 339351

OS Northings: 730442

OS Grid: NO393304

Mapcode National: GBR Z86.HG

Mapcode Global: WH7RB.3TGW

Plus Code: 9C8VF267+VM

Entry Name: Douglas Mill, Douglas Street, Dundee

Listing Name: West Henderson's Wynd, Douglas Court, Former Douglas Mill on Milne's East Wynd, Near Douglas Street

Listing Date: 18 May 1987

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361325

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25156

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundee, Douglas Street, Douglas Mill

ID on this website: 200361325

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: West End

Traditional County: Angus

Tagged with: Architectural structure

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Description

Tow or jutemill, circa 1834-36. 2-storey and attic 10-by
3-bay iron framed rubble-built mill with double-pitched
preparing room added to N circa 1846-51. S elevation 7
ground floor windows. 4 altered to doors. 8th bay has
tall engine house window rising through 1st floor, later
converted to 2 windows. 10th bay is the stone base of a
chimney built into the mill and rising through eaves, with
brick top removed. E gable has door inserted at ground
floor. 3 1st floor windows, 2 blocked when mechanics
shop, now removed, was added. W gable has 2 ground floor
windows and door, 1 1st floor window and attic loading
door. N elevation 2 round-headed bays to boiler house,
door to stairs and engine.
Single storey preparing room with 2 doors and a blocked
window to E Iron columns carry iron beam and wall of
mill. 1st floor 3 doors, formerly linked by a platform and
6 windows.
Interior: (rebuilt in 1850s) iron framed and brick arched
with cast-iron parabolic beams and wrought-iron ties on
iron columns with bulbous capitals. Stone flagged floors.
Boiler House, at E of ground floor has 2 fluted Egyptian
columns, narrower 1835 beam, and evidence of engine
fittings. Old engine house had wooden floor inserted
stone spiral stair. Roof has curved cast-iron trusses on
short iron columns with wooden boarding at sides.
Preparing room also has a curved cast-iron roof.

Statement of Interest

List excludes storehouses with modern roofs by

Douglas St.

Owned by R Gilroy before the move to Tay Works in 1849,

and so an early jute mill. Afterwards spun tow, later

jute, in conjunction with Anchor Mill for J Duncan,

J Gordon, Tough Bros, J F Robertson and Tay Textiles.

Closed 1981 and converted to units.

Contains antique lift mechanism.

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