Description

Built 1883. Woollen mill with unusually complete interior, containing much early machinery and waterwheel. L-plan; 2-storey and attic tall range, deep on plan, with 5-bay north long elevation, central door

on east gable; low single storey range extends 4 bays from west end of south wall - piended south most bay (press room) not original. Rubble-built with squared dressings; low range slated, tall range with modern corrugated asbestos roof and end stacks.

Interior: Low range contains dye house, low breast-shot iron water-wheel (roughly 15/16' diameter) beside south wall of tall range; boiler at south (roof ventilator and axial stack over), overhead power shafts; tall range contains numerous machines, some brought from previous mill building.

Rubble-built single segmental-arched access bridge to south east of mill.

Statement of Interest

Inventory notes "some of [the machinery as being] among the last specimens of their kind to survive in Britain". Earlier mill to south in poor condition.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Woollen Mill, Redhouses, Islay at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q1674245

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2