Description

Flax mill built between 1828 and 1834, altered and
lengthened in 1860s. 2-storey and attic 9-bay mill,
rubble with tooled dressings. N gable to Douglas Street,
ground floor, altered in later 19th century, has 3
windows and a door. 1st floor blocked windows and attic
door to later fire escape, skew putts and flat-topped
gable finial. W elevation: wall carried on stout flanged
ground floor cast-iron columns inserted in 2 stages in
1860s. 1st floor 9 wooden-framed windows. E elevation
altered ground floor; 1st floor similar to W elevation. S gable
brick with projecting stone stair by engine house.
Interior: mill originally wooden floors on iron
columns, with brick arches laid on top in 1860s.
4-bay addition at S has 1860s iron framed ground floor.
1st floor wooden ceiling. Wooden collar beam attic
with wrought-iron ties.

Statement of Interest

List excludes all single-storey manufacturing areas in

order to encourage its continued industrial use.

These include 1860s preparing sheds W of mill and 1872

weaving sheds with cop flat by Milne's West Wynd.

List also excludes WC block, engine house and "Bridge"

to cop flat at S end of lower Pleasance Mill.

Owned successively by James Forbes, Briad, T and J

Cargill, Neish and Whitton, Ritchie and Simson, C

Lyell (who renamed it the Queen Victoria Works in the

1887 Jubilee), the Victoria Spinning Co, BMK and

Victoria Spinning (1982) Ltd. The world's oldest

operating jute mill.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17799218

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)