Description

Circa 1800. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, piend-roofed, classical lodge at head of descent into New Lanark with slightly advanced, pedimented, central entrance bay. Roughly squared, coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings. Eaves course. Long and short quoins. Regular fenestration with tabbed margins; bipartite windows at ground floor to front elevation and at first floor to rear. Timber-panelled entrance door with fanlight deeply recessed plain ashlar architrave. Late 20th century conservatory addition to rear.

Predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Rendered stacks with yellow clay cans.

Statement of Interest

A-Group with '2 New Lanark Road'. This lodge is one of a pair with No 2, placed symmetrically at either side of New Lanark Road at the junction with Braxfield Road. Paired lodges are relatively unusual especially at the entrance to a village (examples of paired lodges of roughly similar date can be found at Kailzie estate in Peeblesshire and Drum House in Midlothian but these are positioned on the driveways into estates). The New Lanark lodges are of the simple classical style in which the majority of the New Lanark village buildings are designed. The lodges announce very clearly to those approaching that New Lanark is a separate and largely self-contained unit.

New Lanark was a pioneering cotton-spinning village, which became a model for industrial communities that was to spread across the world in the 19th and 20th centuries and is recognised as being of outstanding importance historically and in visual terms because of its completeness and its physical form. Elements of sophisticated early town planning are evidenced in the orchestration of the various components in the village, from the mill weir, its lade and tunnel to south, to the tunnels and sluices leading off to the individual mills, the crucially generous circulation spaces, gardens, tailored walks and viewing points realised from the start. It is surrounded by an incomparable natural and designed landscape, the mill buildings sitting on the natural terrace to the east of the River Clyde in this deeply incised, wooded river valley.

Built to exploit the water power offered by the Falls of Clyde, the mills were in operation from 1786 to 1968. The mill village is made up of industrial, residential and community buildings, dating predominantly from between 1786 and the 1820s. The mill was founded by David Dale, a Glasgow merchant, in conjunction with Richard Arkwright, a trailblazing inventor of the cotton spinning industry whose patents enabled operation on a considerable scale. Dale's humane philosophy, realised from the start in the buildings of New Lanark, was expanded by Robert Owen, who took over management of the mill village in partnership from 1799. Owen created an environment where child labour and corporal punishment were abolished, and provided workers with good homes, education and free health care as well as affordable food. He had a profound influence on social developments such as factory reform throughout the 19th century.

Within World Heritage Site inscribed 2001.

List description updated 2010.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata IDs Q17852269 Q17852278

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair