Glasgow, Port Dundas, 20 Speirs Wharf, City Of Glasgow Grain Mills And Stores
Grain Mill (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Glasgow, Port Dundas, 20 Speirs Wharf, City Of Glasgow Grain Mills And Stores
Classification Grain Mill (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Lower Craighall Road; 186-260 North Speirs Wharf
Canmore ID 259658
Site Number NS56NE 4775
NGR NS 58846 66679
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/259658
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
City of Glasgow Grain Mills, 4-38 Speirs Wharf, c.1851. Four large blocks, five- and six-storey white ashlar, with former loading doors capped by open pediment hoods. Converted to flats and private leisure suite, 1989, Nicholas Groves-Raines.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NS56NE 4775 NS 58846 66679 20 Speirs Wharf
The following all belong to same range and for a comprehensive list of references and collection material see:
NS56NE 119 NS 58858 66628 4 - 6 Speirs Wharf
NS56NE 2341 NS 58854 66649 8 - 12 Speirs Wharf
NS56NE 4773 NS 58854 66667 14 - 16 Speirs Wharf
NS56NE 4774 NS 58846 66676 18 Speirs Wharf
NS56NE 4776 NS 58849 66718 24 - 26 Speirs Wharf
NS56NE 4777 NS 58848 66734 28 - 32 Speirs Wharf
NS56NE 4778 NS 58844 66788 34 - 38 Speirs Wharf
NS56NE 4779 NS 58848 66691 22 Speirs Wharf
See also
NS56NE 86 NS 58855 66590 2 Speirs Wharf, Canal Office
NS56NE 2343 NS 58841 66834 40 - 50 Speirs Wharf, Sugar Refinery
NS56NE 2387 NS 58869 66897 52 Speirs Wharf, Wheatsheaf Building
At the W end of North Canal Bank Street, we come to North Spiers Wharf and the immensely long range of tall snecked rubble mills and warehouses looking over the truncated canal towards the West End's Park estate on the opposite hill. They are the former City of Glasgow Grain Mills and Stores, built for John Murray & Co. and originally with twenty pairs of stones and a 100-horsepower condensing engine. The 6-storey N block dates from c. 1851 and the rest from 1869-70. Inside, brick arches on cast-iron columns.
At the N end of the grain mills, the even taller Dundas Sugar Refinery of 1866 with lower red and white brick ranges round a courtyard to the N and facing Craighall Road.
All these buildings are being converted (1989) into flats, with very little alteration to the exterior, by Nicholas Groves-Raines (job architect John Forbes).
E Williamson, A Riches and M Higgs 1990.
