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Hillbank Mill, Alexander Street, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4702 / 56°28'12"N

Longitude: -2.9647 / 2°57'52"W

OS Eastings: 340663

OS Northings: 731318

OS Grid: NO406313

Mapcode National: GBR ZBK.V1

Mapcode Global: WH7RB.FMGP

Plus Code: 9C8VF2CP+34

Entry Name: Hillbank Mill, Alexander Street, Dundee

Listing Name: Alexander Street and 46, 48 Dens Road, Hillbank, or Blakey's Mill

Listing Date: 18 May 1987

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361041

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24922

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundee, Alexander Street, Hillbank Mill

ID on this website: 200361041

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: Coldside

Traditional County: Angus

Tagged with: Flax mill

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Description

1834-6. 3-storey and attic 2-by 17-bay red sandstone
rubble-built flax mill, iron-framed at lower floors.
N elevation central blocked arched cart entry at ground
floor, 3 large loading doors, apparently original, and
5 large asymmetrically-placed windows. 4 blocked
windows to basement flax store at E end of mill below
bipartite which replaced in circa 1840 a larger loading
door or engine house window. Symmetrically-placed
large 1st and smaller 2nd floor windows. S elevation
17-bay with central depressed arched cart entry flanked
on each side by altered loading doors, 2 windows and
blocked loading doors below symmetrically placed
external stairs (removed) to 1st floor doors at each
end of mill. 1st and 2nd floor windows as N with central
dormer hoist over 2nd floor door. Narrow 2-bay E and W
gables with skewputts. 2 arched openings to E basement.
Slate roof with small skylights. 8-pane 1st floor and
6-pane 2nd floor casement windows.
Interior: iron-framed basement, ground and 1st floor.
A single row of cast-iron columns carry cast-iron
beams stapled to shallow brick arches tensioned by
wrought-iron ties and intersected by boxes for gearing,
belts and hoists. 2nd floor cast-iron columns carry a
lengthwise timber beam supporting wooden floor of small
timber attic.

Statement of Interest

After the Coffin Mill, the longest of the 4 large-scale

1830s flax mills in the city, with an unusual and

primitive form of iron-frame. Feued in 1834 by C and R

Milne. Owned in 1836 by R G Holden and Co with a 60hp

engine, and later by J H Blakey; Blakey Holden and Co;

Swan Brothers; and the Hillbank Spinning Co. The ground

floor was primarily a warehouse, hence the numerous

doors. Spinning was carried out above and in 2 smaller

mills, circa 1840, with main engine house, and circa

1880, both demolished.

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