Perth, City Mills. General view of granary. Digital image of PT 1246.

Description Perth, City Mills. General view of granary. Digital image of PT 1246.

Date 9/1963

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

Catalogue Number SC 745665

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PT 1246

Scope and Content View of granary, 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 granary (grain store) in 1963 before they were refurbished and restored for use as flats by The National Trust for Scotland as part of their 'Little Houses' scheme. The four-storeyed rubble building has an external stair-tower to the left and double doors reached by a short flight of steps. Perth City Mills were built by the City Corporation to produce oatmeal to feed the town. Oatmeal was once the mainstay of the Scottish diet, and remains popular today, although most traditional watermills have closed under pressure from the larger modern mills. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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