Blairgowrie, Lornty Mill

A nine-bay by two-bay two-storeyed random-rubble linen/jute mill, with a slate roof piended (with two dormers) at its SE end. Situated on the S bank of the Lornty Burn. Disused and unoccupied at the time of survey in 2002.

Information from RCAHMS

(MKO) 2002

2 storey mill on irregularly falling ground, dated 1755 on the lintel though dated to 1814 in Macdonald's History of Blairgowrie. The present piend roof is probably later in date. The mill remains one of a group of flax and jute mills dispersed on either side of the River Ericht, all originally driven by water wheels. It is entered at first floor level, though the interior is now gutted save for the remains of a Turnbull Junior and Sons water turbine. (Historic Scotland)

Blairgowrie was long a centre of extensive hand loom and hand-spinning industry before construction of the Meikle Mill on the River Ericht, 1798. From then the abundant free power of the river and Lornty Burn spawned a new rash of linen and jute mills with associated owners' houses. Lornty Mill is thought to have been built for David Grimond. (N Haynes)

The Grimond family occupied a lint mill on Lornty Burn, Charles Grimond was granted £15 in 1803 to repair the lint mill of Lornty and build a shed. This mill was almost certainly the one in which David Grimond, a millwright by trade, installed four spinning frames in 1814. (John Shaw)