General view from WSW

Description General view from WSW

Date 1/6/1980

Collection Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco

Catalogue Number B 9331

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 730881

Scope and Content Dunaskin Brick Works from west-south-west, Waterside Iron Works, Dalmellington, East Ayrshire The Dalmellington Iron Company founded the iron works at Waterside in 1847. The works were bought in 1931 by William Baird & Company Limited who established a new firm called Baird & Dalmellington Limited and built the brick works. The brick works closed in 1976. The two-storeyed, seven-bayed building with a chimney beside its gable end in the centre was the transverse arch kiln. The kiln had 14 connected chambers which were heated to 1,100-1,200°C by an under-floor heating system. The draught from the chimney drew heat through each chamber and up to 16,000 bricks were fired for two weeks in each chamber. The main features of a Staffordshire transverse arch kiln such as this one, are dampers, flues and transverse arches. Dampers controlled the fire and flues improved air circulation. Transverse arches increased the amount of bricks that could be baked in the chamber because the arch lay across the flow of the fire which meant that they did not have to be a set length. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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