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Stanley Mills East Range
Garage (20th Century), Warehouse (Period Unassigned), Weaving Shed (19th Century), Workshop (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Stanley Mills East Range
Classification Garage (20th Century), Warehouse (Period Unassigned), Weaving Shed (19th Century), Workshop (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Cotton Warehouse; Workshops
Canmore ID 225046
Site Number NO13SW 43.05
NGR NO 11456 32824
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/225046
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Auchtergaven
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Watching Brief (15 July 2002 - 15 July 2002)
NO 114 328 A watching brief was undertaken in July 2002 at Stanley Mills, near Perth, to examine and record waterlogged timbers found during clearance operations in the East and Bell Mill Lades.
One piece of apparently loose timber of good quality found in the Bell Mill Lade has been provisionally identified as a wall plate. This timber would have been laid horizontally along the wall head of a building and the roof timbers would have been tied into it. The design of two other timber features along with associated structures indicated a form of sluice gate at two separate locations in the East Mill Lade.
G Ewart and D Stewart 2002
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
Kirkdale Archaeology
Standing Building Recording (April 2022 - May 2022)
NO 11473 32800 Stanley Mills was founded in the late 1700s with technical and financial support from Richard Arkwright, who himself had greatly developed and expanded the cotton industry in England. The site developed and grew over the years, its fortunes waxed and waned, until it eventually closed in 1989. The site was bought by Historic Scotland in 1995, restored between then, and 2007.
The weaving shed, garage and ancillary buildings were not included as part of the restoration and instead fell into dereliction and became the target of vandalism. The buildings are a record of the development and expansion of the eastern side of the mill during its later years, with the brick structures being built around the turn of the 20th century. An enhanced historic building survey was carried out in April and May 2022.
Originally the weaving shed began as a single rubble-built building (Phase 1), built in the SE corner of the site’s boundary wall, as part of the 1823–25 expansion of the Mill. The building was initially expanded southward (Phase 2); however, the site’s position adjacent to the River Tay meant that further expansion had to go in a different direction, initially heading eastward with a stone built extension to the original building (Phase 3), taking it beyond the boundary wall. Three further, later expansions were added to the N as less substantial brick buildings (Phases 5, 6 and 7).
The brick built 20th-century garage was built into the NE corner of the site’s boundary wall and a small toilet was added to its exterior.
G Carruthers – CFA Archaeology Ltd
(Source: DES Volume 23; OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-437611)
