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Architecture Notes
Event ID 773064
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/773064
NS95SE 11.00 950 549
Wilsontown Ironworks: Remains of blast furnace, wrought iron works and forge. The main features are two ruined engine-houses; a culvert, which is itself surmounted by a three arched waggonway bridge; a limekiln; foundation remains of forge buildings, managers house and ruins of workers dwellings. The buried square-section blast furnace, with a circular lining, is the only surviving coke blast furnace of the pre-1930 period in Scotland apart from Glenbuck. Now a scheduled ancient monument.
Visited, photographed and filmed by J R Hume, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 1965-6.
Information from NMRS MS/749/158.
