Tillicoultry, Devonvale Mill

NS99NW 27 921 965

(Location cited as NS 922 965). Devonvale Mills, mid to late 19th century. A complex of 1-, 2- and 3-storey buildings, the largest of which is a 3-storey, 6-by-16-bay, cement-rendered stone building, with internal rows of columns supporting pairs of cross-beams. There is a neat 2-storey, 6-bay pedimented office block. Now disused.

J R Hume 1976.

Established in 1846 by J & R Archibald, the company transferred all its production here (from Craigfoot Mill) in 1851. The surviving main three-storeyed mill building, which dates from the 1860s, is 16 bays long and three bays wide, and has white rendered rubble walls. The slates of its hipped tripple-ridged roof had been replaced with sheet metal at the time of survey in 2001, and the site was being used as a furniture retail outlet. Prior to this use, it had been converted to a paper mill in 1921 and operated by Samuel Jones & Co (Devonvale) Ltd.

Information from RCAHMS (MKO), 2001.

Reference:

Park, B A, (1979), 'The Woollen Mill Buildings in the Hillfoots Area', Forth Naturalist and Historian, University of Stirling, 152-159