Alexander Street and 46, 48 Dens Road, Hillbank, or Blakey's Mill Dundee, Dundee City Council Area, Scotland, UK
1834-6. 3-storey and attic 2-by 17-bay red sandstone rubble-built flax mill, iron-framed at lower floors.
Listed Building Description
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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.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
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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.
Listed Building References
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DU MS 17/P/243 (1834) feuing plan).