View from North. Digital image of B 9316

Description View from North. Digital image of B 9316

Date 4/3/1980

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

Catalogue Number SC 730884

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 9316

Scope and Content Blowing engine house from north, 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 roof and the north-west front of the 1847 blowing engine house that has ashlar walls, topped by corbels supporting a cornice and parapet. Parts of the arched windows have been bricked up and the two openings in the roof were for skylights. The corbels are the mouldings projecting from the wall and supporting the cornice at the top of the building. Originally the blowing engine house was where cast iron would have been produced but when the iron works became a brick works it was converted to house brick presses. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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