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South Anchor Mill, Anchor Lane, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4614 / 56°27'40"N

Longitude: -2.9845 / 2°59'4"W

OS Eastings: 339432

OS Northings: 730348

OS Grid: NO394303

Mapcode National: GBR Z89.XL

Mapcode Global: WH7RB.4V3J

Plus Code: 9C8VF268+G6

Entry Name: South Anchor Mill, Anchor Lane, Dundee

Listing Name: 42, 44 West Henderson's Wynd and Elevation to Anchor Lane, Former South Anchor Mill

Listing Date: 18 May 1987

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361318

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25148

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200361318

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: West End

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

Circa 1846 enlarged 1850s 2-storey and attic 13-bay jute
mill, with 2 engine houses at W added circa 1865. Rubble
elevation to Anchor Lane now harled with ground floor
windows blocked. 1st floor metal framed windows, 2
blocked. Small gable to lift housing at W end. Rubble E
and W gables with skewputts, flat-topped finials and early
flat-topped ventilators in slate-roof. Rubble-built S
elevation with ground floor opened out in the 1850s and
wall carried on stout iron columns and cast-iron beams.
2 rubble circa 1865 engine houses with piended roofs, 1
has a tall round-headed window to N and S, and 2 arched
windows to E, 1 altered. Lower, wider factory engine
house with blocked bipartite.
Interior ground floor brick arches on cast-iron columns
and beams. 1st floor 2 rows of iron columns carry
length-wise wooden beams and wooden ceiling with concrete
laid on top. Attic curved cast-iron roof couples on columns
with bell capitals. Engine houses have had concrete
floors and a fire escape inserted.

Statement of Interest

List excludes steel and asbestos-roofed preparing shed

to S, boiler house to W and 2-storey extension to E,

though 4 bays of the ground floor of the latter are of

interest, being an early (1882) use of concrete arched

floors in the mechanic's shop.

Bought by A and J Aidie in 1850, later Scott and

Robertson, closed 1970. Now a stationery warehouse.

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