28 Annfield Road, Baltic Works, Chimney and Former Mill Dundee, Dundee City Council Area, Scotland, UK
Pearce Brothers, Lilybank Foundry, 1872 Mill. Chimney stalk 1864. a.
Listed Building Description
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Pearce Brothers, Lilybank Foundry, 1872 Mill. Chimney stalk 1864. a. 1864 chimney, prominent landmark, octagonal red brick with white brick dog-legs and iron tie bands broached above a tall polychrome brick corniced pedestal with ashlar roll-moulding and broaches. b. 1872 engine house and mill (original 8-bay section with iron roof only). 8 N-lit sheds with rubble W elevation having 3 half-piended roofs. 5 sheds to N have been extended to W by 33' to a harled brick wall. S elevation rubble with sliding doors–some original, some blocked. E elevation harled brick with wooden boarding fronting iron trusses, allowing for planned extension which was never built. Saw-toothed slated N-lit roofs. Interior: superb traceried gothic cast-iron spans with elaborate crossbeams at E to support pulleys for rope drives. Columns are double-bracketted with bell capitals. Tall rubble engine house has 2 roundheaded windows to S, blank E and W elevations and blocked panel at N for ropes. Interior: later concrete floor inserted. Large timber roof beams and cast-iron hooks. windows. W mansard gable with flat-topped finial,
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
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Listing excludes steel-tie asbestos roofed additions of 1933 and 1955 to N and S of original mill, office, boiler house, canteen and 1864 power loom factory with corbelled front to Hawkhill. The chimney is one of the earliest octagonal stalks in Dundee and a rare survivor in W Dundee. Top cornice removed in 1987. The mill was one of the first in Dundee to be driven by ropes, as opposed to traditional gearing. The elaborate iron roofs are matched only in Camperdown Works. Built for Mitchell and Graham, but owned by Hardie and Smith from 1880 to 1983, a subsidiary of A and S Henry from 1917 and of the Titaghur Jute Factory Co Ltd from 1972. Now used by Halley Stevenson, dyers, with plant from Lawside Dyeworks and a 5-bowl hydraulic calender from Brechin.
Listed Building References
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Dundee Museum photographs of interior circa 1920: Nos 1973-1051-4 to 18 (some displayed). NMRS AND 493 (1872 drawings). Jan S Sosna THE FACTORY CHIMNEYS OF DUNDEE (1977) "Probably 2nd to Cox's stack for its intricacy of design".