Archaeology Notes
Event ID 702376
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/702376
NS46SW 27 4151 6253
(Location cited as NS 415 625). Cartside Mill, Milliken Park, built c. 1790. One of the finest surviving early Scottish cotton mills, a 6-storey and attic, 20-bay rubble building with margins. On the south frontage are two semi-octagonal bays and on the north, in the same position, are Palladian windows. Internally, slender cast-iron columns support longitudinal wooden beams, which support cross beams and wooden floors. Now houses paper-coating machines with festoon dryers. There was originally a central waterwheel, later replaced by a turbine, which is now removed. The lade, however, is maintained to provide process water. At the rear is a two-storey and attic, 27-bay block, and in front a more modern three-storey, 6- by 14-bay, flat-roofed brick block.
J R Hume 1976.