Architecture Notes

Event ID 790318

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NS53NW 5275 3698

Dating from 1901, this is the largest works in Newmilns, and is dominated by a yellow-brick three-storeyed facade with maximum use of glazing, behind which there is a group of lace and madras weaving sheds (Allan, 1979). The company, Morton Young and Borland (part of the Ayrshire Textiles group), continues to manufacture lace using Nottingham lace machines, and in on the date of visit was the only surviving manufacturer of madras in the world.

Visited by RCAHMS (MKO) 8 November 1996

C C Allan 1979