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Latitude: 54.9089 / 54°54'32"N
Longitude: -4.6022 / 4°36'8"W
OS Eastings: 233273
OS Northings: 560232
OS Grid: NX332602
Mapcode National: GBR HH0Q.W32
Mapcode Global: WH3TK.8WP4
Plus Code: 9C6QW95X+H4
Entry Name: Waulk Mill, Tarff
Listing Name: Kirkcowan Waulk Mill Mill Building and Weaving Sheds and Stack
Listing Date: 20 July 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 346096
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13102
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200346096
Location: Kirkcowan
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Parish: Kirkcowan
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1821 built by R W T Milroy, enlarged by W T, 1835. Brick weaving sheds 1910. enlarged 1917. In poor condition (1990).
MILL BUILDING: 8-bay frontage, 2-storeys and attic. Packed rubble with squared granite quoins and margins. Off-centre to left, large granite margined slate hung dormer, formerly attic loading door, now glazed as window. All single light windows, 12-pane glazing pattern, sash and case to ground, fixed above. Corrugated-asbestos roof with skylights. INTERIOR: off-centre internal underfloor wheelpit but from natural rock with rubble upper parts. Massive roughly cut hexagonal timber axel on site but not in situ; water wheel. originally large overshot wheel removed. Timber uprights support floor joists, some pulleys and drive shafts survive.
WEAVING SHEDS AND CHIMNEY: 5 brick built asymmetric-gabled lit weaving sheds; that to N is later addition of 1917, rest dated 1910. S facing pitches slated in N facing glazed. Tall, corniced brick chimney with decorative band.
INTERIOR: 4, 7-bay aisles with timber uprights supporting metal and timber beams, most line-shafting still in place. Office to NW angle. Detached boiler house and tall octagonal brick stack to S. Polychrome br icks to chimney, tapered and banded at top.
B group with Kirkcowan Waulk Mill House.
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