Standing Building Recording

Date July 2020

Event ID 1127026

Category Recording

Type Standing Building Recording

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1127026

NT 50056 14409 A historic building survey was undertaken of the former Peter Scott’s Mill located at Nos 7–11 Buccleuch Street, Hawick. The works were completed, in July 2020, in advance of the demolition of the buildings to create a new car park area for a new development.

Peter Scott’s Mill was founded in the late 1890s by Peter Scott at Buccleuch Street, with the Buccleuch Street frontage, which contained the main offices to the mill complex, completed by 1913. The industrial areas of the mill were located to the S and included two large single-storey weaving sheds, typically large buildings with an expanse of columns supporting the saw-tooth roofs. Storehouses for the yarn, final products and other goods and materials were housed in taller multi-storey buildings, and a large red brick chimney signifies the use of steam engines to provide power to the machines, which is still a prominent feature in Hawick’s skyline.

The mill buildings which were subject to survey in this report include a range of mill buildings which are central to the complex and consist of the two large former weaving sheds, two former milling rooms, a yarn store, loading bay, several circulation areas and other small ancillary rooms and workshops.

Archive: NRHE (intended)

Funder: Pesco Developments

Diana Sproat, Robert Usher and Jamie Humble −

AOC Archaeology Group

(Source: DES Volume 21)