Dumfries, Mill Road, Dumfries Mill
Grain Mill (18th Century)
Site Name Dumfries, Mill Road, Dumfries Mill
Classification Grain Mill (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Dumfries Town Mill; Dumfries, Town Mills; Robert Burns Centre; River Nith; Corn Mill
Canmore ID 65506
Site Number NX97NE 104
NGR NX 97008 75878
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/65506
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Troqueer (Dumfries-shire)
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NX97NE 104 97008 75878
Location formerly cited as NX 9701 7587.
Works [NAT]
OS 1:2500 map, 1965.
NMRS REFERENCE:
ARCHITECT: John Smeaton c. 1780.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Dumfries Town Mill. There has been a mill on this site since early medieval times and by the late 17th century there were several meal and waulk mills belonging to the burgh. The present mill dates from the 1780's, following the destruction by fire of an earlier structure.
I Donnachie 1971.
(Location cited as NX 970 758). Dumfries Mill (corn), built c. 1780 by engineer Andrew Meikle. A 3-storey (cut down from 5-storey) building on a T plan, with a 6-bay main range. There is a single-storey brick addition, probably on the site of the kiln. Now a store. The weir is a notable one.
J R Hume 1976.
Town Mills, Mill Road. Originally a grain mill. Rubble-built main block by Andrew Meikle, c. 1781, addition of c. 1840 at the S end. Now the Robert Burns Centre.
J Gifford 1996.
The supply of water to this mill may have been controlled by the weir NX97NE 122 (at NX 96957 75988).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 March 2006.
Photographic Survey (October 1964)
Photographic survey by the Scottish National Buildings Record/Ministry of Work in October 1964
Publication Account (1977)
The town established mills on the Galloway side of the river in 1705. A new water mill had been let in 1707 and a wheat mill was added later in 1742. In 1780 the 1705 erection was destroyed by fire and a new mill, still standing, was erected on the same site the following year (Barbour, 1884-5, 61).
Information from ‘Historic Dumfries: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1977).
