Barrmill, Giffenmill Viaduct

Railway Viaduct (20th Century)

Site Name Barrmill, Giffenmill Viaduct

Classification Railway Viaduct (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Barr Mill, Viaduct; Dusk Water

Canmore ID 42190

Site Number NS35SE 18

NGR NS 36873 51151

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/42190

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View looking NNE from limekilns toward viaduct in the distance

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Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

8/4/1971

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Detail of E abutment

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1994

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View from S, showing all seven arches

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1994

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View from SW

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1994

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Detail at deck level of parapet, showing crumbling mass concrete, and brick where concrete render has fallen away

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1994

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Oblique view from N, showing all seven arches

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1994

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Detail at deck level of parapet, showing crumbling mass concrete, and brick where concrete render has fallen away

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1994

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General view.

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List C Survey

1975

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View from SE, showing all seven arches

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1994

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View from ESE

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1994

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View from NNE, showing skew of viaduct

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1994

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View from SSE of central arch over Dusk Water, showing skew of viaduct

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1994

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Barrmill, Giffenmill Viaduct, NS35SE 18, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

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Oblique view from NE

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1994

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Detail of E arch, plasters and pier, showing concrete render and mouldings

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1994

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View from SE, showing all seven arches

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1994

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View from ESE

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1994

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View from SW

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1994

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Detail of W abutment

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1994

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Administrative Areas

Council North Ayrshire
Parish Beith (Cunninghame)
Former Region Strathclyde
Former District Cunninghame
Former County Ayrshire

Archaeology Notes

NS35SE 18 36783 51151

Giffenmill Viaduct [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2009.

(Location cited as NS 356 5111). Giffenmill Viaduct, opened 1903 by the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Rly. A 7-span viaduct, with semicircular concrete arches, now disused.

J R Hume 1976.

Architecture Notes

Description:

1903. 7-span, low semicircular concrete arched viaduct with channelled rustication to facing, across Dusk Water. Pilaster panels between each arch rise through parapet and coping; string course below parapet.

Notes:

Built for the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. Now in deteriorating condition.

References:

Marked on 3rd edition OS map of 1910. John Hume INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND Vol I (1976) p49.

Information from Historic Scotland

De-listed May 2009.

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