View from South-West of engine house Digital image of B 9307

Description View from South-West of engine house Digital image of B 9307

Date 4/3/1980

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

Catalogue Number SC 730874

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 9307

Scope and Content Blowing engine house from the south-west, Dunaskin Brick Works, 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. This shows the 1847 blowing engine house that has ashlar walls, corbels, cornice and parapet. The corbels are the mouldings which project from the wall supporting the cornice at the top of the building. The section behind the waste clay elevator on the right was added in 1865. The parapet and cornice run the length of both the original building and the extension. When the complex was an iron works, the blowing engine house was where cast iron would have been produced by smelting iron ore with fuel and flux. The clay elevator was a brick works alteration when the blowing engine house was transformed to house the brick presses. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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