Museum Of Power, Garlogie Mills

A Category A Listed Building in Westhill and District, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.1398 / 57°8'23"N

Longitude: -2.3614 / 2°21'41"W

OS Eastings: 378225

OS Northings: 805494

OS Grid: NJ782054

Mapcode National: GBR X9.55Y6

Mapcode Global: WH8PG.PSQX

Plus Code: 9C9V4JQQ+WC

Entry Name: Museum Of Power, Garlogie Mills

Listing Name: Garlogie Village Hall, Turbine and Engine House.

Listing Date: 16 April 1971

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 350237

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16506

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200350237

Location: Skene

County: Aberdeenshire

Electoral Ward: Westhill and District

Parish: Skene

Traditional County: Aberdeenshire

Description

Remains of former woollen mill factory with rubble and brick engine house to rear containing a cast-iron beam engine (installed 1830s) with a central Doric column and a 16ft flywheel. The engine beam is approximately 20ft in length. Adjoining the engine house to the south is a single-storey structure of coursed rubble, remodelled as Garlogie village hall by David Morris in 1931 with the addition of a lunette-window gablet to the south. The hall contains a 1923 hydro-electric water turbine by Escher Wyss & Cie. of Switzerland.