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Blair Drummond House, Mill Of Torr
Watermill (19th Century)
Site Name Blair Drummond House, Mill Of Torr
Classification Watermill (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Blairdrummond Moss; Blair Drummond Estate; Blair Drummond Policies
Canmore ID 46096
Site Number NS79NW 40.11
NGR NS 74109 98828
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/46096
- Council Stirling
- Parish Kincardine (Stirling)
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Perthshire
NS79NW 47 74109 98828
(Location cited as NS 742 988). Mill of Torr, built c. 1840. The ruins of a large rubble flour mill. Nearby stood the great drainage wheel used in the improvement of Blairdrummond Moss between 1787 and 1839.
J R Hume 1977.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE
BLAIR DRUMMOND DRAWINGS Inv. R6(P8).
Original drawingS in Estate Office, Blair Drummond, copy in NMRS - 1 photograph plans of additions, 1844; 1 photograph 'profile of water-course above and below the mill' and 'an aqueduct for conveying the water to the moss'.
Partly of early date, largely neo-Tudorised c. 1845-50 in Dickson manner. Very overgrown. Picturesque. No workings remain. (Historic Scotland)
