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Tongland, Artificial Silk Factory, Sulphidizing House

Textile Mill (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Tongland, Artificial Silk Factory, Sulphidizing House

Classification Textile Mill (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Tongland Scottish Artificial Silks Ltd; Rayon Factory

Canmore ID 313572

Site Number NX65SE 139.02

NGR NX 69973 53835

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Kirkcudbright
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Stewartry
  • Former County Kirkcudbrightshire

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Publication Account (1932)

'Four storey steel framed brick filled Sulphidizing House, 37feet by 32 feet, partly fireporoof, special floor ventilation top two storeys and roof...'

Scottish Artificial Silks Limited, Descriptive Particulars of the freehold Modern Viscose Rayon Factory known as Tongland Mill, for sale by auction in one lot at the Midland Hotel, Manchester at 3.30pm on Friday 11 November 1932, 6; see MS/6323

Field Visit (October 2011)

This building is now roofless. It appears to have been built for the Scopttish Articifial Silks Ltd who occupied this site in the 1930s. The site was sold in the 1930s and appears to have been disused since.

Visited by RCAHMS (MMD) 6 October 2011.

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