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Dundee, 203 Brook Street, Queen Victoria Works
Flax Mill (19th Century)
Site Name Dundee, 203 Brook Street, Queen Victoria Works
Classification Flax Mill (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Milne's West Wynd
Canmore ID 68113
Site Number NO33SE 83
NGR NO 39263 30431
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/68113
- Council Dundee, City Of
- Parish Dundee (Dundee, City Of)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District City Of Dundee
- Former County Angus
Flax mill, part of Queen Victoria Works, built between 1828 and 1834, altered and lengthened in 1860s. 2-storey and attic 9-bay mill, rubble with tooled dressings. N gable to Douglas Street, ground floor, altered in later 19th century, has 3 windows and a door. 1st floor blocked windows and attic door to later fire escape, skew putts and flat-topped gable finial. W elevation: wall carried on stout flanged ground floor cast-iron columns inserted in 2 stages in 1860s. 1st floor 9 wooden-framed windows. E elevation altered ground floor; 1st floor similar to W elevation. S gable brick with projecting stone stair by engine house. Interior: mill originally wooden floors on iron columns, with brick arches laid on top in 1860s. 4-bay addition at S has 1860s iron framed ground floor. 1st floor wooden ceiling. Wooden collar beam attic with wrought-iron ties.
Owned successively by James Forbes, Briad, T and J Cargill, Neish and Whitton, Ritchie and Simson, C Lyell (who renamed it the Queen Victoria Works in the 1887 Jubilee), the Victoria Spinning Co, BMK and Victoria Spinning Ltd, at which point (1982) it was the world's oldest operating jute mill. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)
Publication Account (2013)
JUTE MILLS IN SCOURINGBURN
Queen Victoria Works, Brook Street, 1828/ 1887, ceased jute spinning in 1995.
M Watson, 2013
