Tarrasfoot Tileworks Kiln
Date 10 December 1998
Event ID 897058
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/897058
Main surviving buildings are; KILN: early 20th century; vaulted Newcastle kiln; rectangular-plan with openings to E and to W short walls; squat brick stack over common wall. Brick-built with iron/steel ties and braces. DRYING SHEDS: 2 single-storey buildings, the larger a remarkably long L-plan block, the other rectangular-plan; each structure is timber-framed with full-height louvred corrugated-iron panels; roofs half-slated. Interior with timber shelving racks. MACHINE WING: piend-roofed stone-built rectangular-plan block linked to long S wall of larger drying shed; machinery now removed. Roof full-slated.
Owned and formerly operated by Buccleuch estates for production of field drains. (Historic Scotland)
