Archaeology Notes

Event ID 789776

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS56NE 1076.00 centred 5640 6632

NS56NE 1076.01 NS 56706 66435 to NS 56437 66363 lade, sluices and overflow

For associated weir and sluices (NS 5673 6646), see NS56NE 4876.

Regent Flour Mills, Bunhouse Road. Built 1887-90 for John Ure, miller and flour merchant, by A Watt, Aberdeen, architect (£16,000). The six-storey, 3- by 19-bay building on the street was a warehouse, the five-storey, 3- by 11- by 8-bay L-plan building by the river being the mill proper. The buildings are ashlar, with fireproof interiors, the warehouse having a rusticated ground floor. The brick chimney has a staircase round it and a water tank on top.

The mills were bought by the SCWS in 1903, and their architect James davidson added a four-storey, attic and basement, 6- by 2-bay red brick wheat silo and a single-storey 5-bay block beside the railway.

These mills were constructed on the site on the medieval Bunhouse Mill, which was destroyed by fire in 1886.

J R Hume 1974.

This large and complex watermill is situated on the S (Glasgow) bank of the River Kelvin, to the NW of the Kelvin Hall (NS56NE 145).

Information from RCSAHMS (RJCM), 1 december 2005.