Description

1828, Flax Warehouse, rubble-built. 3-storey, 6-bay
symmetrical front with 2 large loading doors at ground
floor and narrower hoist doors above at 1st and 2nd
floors, each flanked by a window. Dated gear wheel at
centre of 1st floor. 2-storey twin-gabled N-elevation
with loading doors and fire escapes. 3-bay E and W
elevations with tie-plates at 2nd and 3rd floors and
windows at 1st and 2nd floor of W and blocked at 2nd
floor of E elevation. U-shaped hipped slate roof with
valley behind and central fire-barrier wall.
Interior: wooden post and beam construction.
Wall to rear conceals access to tunnel under Dens
Street to Lower Dens Works. Wrought-iron gate.

Statement of Interest

The oldest surviving part of Baxter Brother's Dens Works.

Cock family with water for bleaching in the 18th

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17800380

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)