Archaeology Notes

Event ID 702039

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/702039

NS52NW 19.00 centred 5282 2587

NS52NW 19.01 NS 5353 2618 (NS 53549 26216 to NS 53532 26141) Weir (across River Ayr)

NS52NW 19.02 NS 53549 26216 to NS c. 52748 25954 'Water Works': Lade, sluices and ponds

[Scheduled area includes weir NS52NW 19.01].

Location formerly entered as NS 534 258.

Catrine Mill was built in 1747. A good example of an early industrial cotton twist mill, it was partially surveyed for the National Buildings Record in 1960. The mill was noted as being demolished by Butt in 1967.

SNBR 1960; J Butt 1967.

Although the splendid cotton mills, architecturally the finest in Scotland, have been demolished, most of the original 2-storey rubble housing survives, together with the weir, approach spans to the wheel-house, and the tail-race installed in 1827 for the great 50ft (15.24m) wheels built by William Fairbairn. The tail-race exit is at NS 523 261.

J R Hume 1876.

Catrine Mill was entirely demolished in the early 1960s.

Visited by OS (JRL) 8 October 1981.