General view from NE of the two lodges (S to left, and N to right)
SC 754905
Description General view from NE of the two lodges (S to left, and N to right)
Date 11/6/2002
Catalogue Number SC 754905
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of E 32448 CN
Scope and Content Entrance Lodges, Nos 1 & 2 New Lanark Road, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from north-east This shows the pair of two-storeyed lodges which were built c.1810 at the top of the road which leads to New Lanark. The near symmetrical three-bayed buildings have projecting central bays which are topped by plain triangular pediments. The buildings have piended (hipped) roofs and ashlar margins around the door, windows and quoins (corner stones). The lodges were designed in a Neo-Classical style like many of the other buildings at New Lanark. For instance the School, the Institute and the Engineers' Shop all have central pedimented bays. In 1999 these buildings were in private ownership. New Lanark was founded c.1785 by David Dale (1739-1806), a Glasgow merchant, and Richard Arkwright (1732-92), inventor of a water-frame for cotton spinning. Powered by water flowing from the Falls of Clyde the first cotton mill opened in 1786 and by 1799 the complex was the largest of its kind in Scotland. Robert Owen (1771-1858), who was married to David Dale's daughter, was one of a group who bought the mills in 1800. He transformed them into a model industrial community with good working conditions, houses, a non-profit store, a school and an institute for workers. Owen's partners bought the mills in 1828 and operated them until 1881 when another partnership took over. The Gourock Ropework Company ran the site until 1968 which is now mainly under the care of the New Lanark Conservation Trust (founded 1974-5). New Lanark was designated a World Heritage Site in 2001. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference Original: E32448/CN
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