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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 773007
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/773007
NS97NE 114 centred 97347 75461
(Location cited as NX 974 753). Rosefield Mill, built 1886-94 for Charteris Spence and Co., architect Alan Crombie. Two large 2-storey ranges of red-brick buildings, with single-storey workshops behind. The more ornate is a 3- by 22-bay block with machicolated corner towers and a central divice. The other is a 9- by 34-bay structure with Italianate corner towers. Both have round-headed windows in the upper floors. There are 2 fine octagonal chimneys. Built as a tweed mill, now in multiple occupation.
J R Hume 1976.
Rosefield Mills, Troqueer Road. Massive woollen mill by Alan B Crombie, 1885-9, all of red brick with sandstone dressings.
J Gifford 1996.
