Perth, City Mills. General view of lower mill. Digital image of PT 1236.

Description Perth, City Mills. General view of lower mill. Digital image of PT 1236.

Date 9/1963

Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 745602

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PT 1236

Scope and Content Main building and kiln from south-west, Lower City Mills, Perth, Perth & Kinross Lower City Mills consisted of an oatmeal mill on the north side of the lade built in 1787, and a barley mill built in 1803 on the south side. Both were driven by a central low breastshot (water hits the wheel halfway down one side) waterwheel. Barley production ended in the 1930s, and oatmeal milling ceased in 1953. In the mid 1980s the mill was converted into a visitor centre. This shows the three-storeyed main building (left), constructed from rubble with a slate roof. To the right is the kiln, with its ventilator with pyramidal roof. The water wheel which drove the mill's three pairs of millstones is hidden from view at the centre of the building on a lower level. Oats and other grains need to be dried in a kiln before they are ground, as excess moisture in the grains produces a sticky paste which in extreme cases must be cleaned from the millstones by hand. The surface of a millstone is dressed with a pattern of grooves which are set to either crush or separate the husk and inner, floury parts of the grain. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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