Dalmellington, Waterside Ironworks
Iron Works (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Dalmellington, Waterside Ironworks
Classification Iron Works (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Dalmellington Iron Works; Dalmellington, Waterside Ironworks Complex, Dunaskin Brickworks.
Canmore ID 42586
Site Number NS40NW 15
NGR NS 44137 08354
NGR Description Centred NS 44137 08354
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/42586
- Council East Ayrshire
- Parish Dalmellington
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cumnock And Doon Valley
- Former County Ayrshire
NS40NW 15.00 centred 44137 08354
NS40NW 15.01 4415 0838 Dunaskin Brickworks and (incorporated) Waterside Engine house
NS40NW 15.02 4420 0829 and 4428 0827 locomotive repair workshops
NS40NW 15.03 4388 0828 bing
NS40NW 15.04 4398 0844 Offices
NS40NW 15.05 4403 0866 Managers House
For other monuments within the Dalmellington, Waterside Ironworks complex, see also:
NS40NW 23 4470 0845 Dunaskin Brickworks
NS40NW 34.00 centred 438 086 Waterside Village
NS40NW 34.01 4353 0874 to 5358 0867 Waterside Village, New Cottages
NS40NW 34.02 4439 0812 to 4447 0809 Waterside Village, Chapel Row
NS40NW 34.03 4369 0878 to 4379 0870 Waterside Village, Barley Park
NS40NW 34.04 4381 0869 Waterside Village, Barley Park Cottage
NS40NW 34.05 4382 0867 to 4400 0850 Waterside Village, Greenhill
NS40NW 34.06 4359 0888 Waterside Village, Clover Park Cottage
NS40NE 20 454 094 to 474 101 Corbie Craigs Mines
NS40NE 21.00 475 071 Craigmark Mine
NS40NE 22 479 080 Chalmerston Mines
NS40NE 23 459 096 Rough Burn, Mine
NS40NE 26.00 487 069 Penyvenie Colliery
NS40NE 26.01 495 067 Penyvenie, Mine
NS40NE 27 459 081 Laight Mine
NS40NE 30 48 06 'Flying Foxes' aerial ropeway
NS41SW 5 433 111 Lethanhill Mines
NS41SW 6 4242 1192 Houldsworth Colliery
NS41SW 7 43 12 Bowhill Pits
NS41SW 8 427 117 Burnfoothill Mines
NS41SW 9 420 114 Dalharco Mines
NS41SW 10 422 102 Jellieston Pits
NS50NW 5.00 52 09 Beoch Mines
NS50NW 5.01 5105 0917 Beoch Colliery (4)
(Location cited as NS 442 083). Dalmellington Ironworks, Waterside, opened 1848 by the Dalmellington Iron Co. The much-reduced remains of a typical mid 19th century iron-smelting works. The most notable surviving structure is the Italaianate blowing-engine house (NS40NW 15.01) with round-headed windows, dated 1847 and now part of a brickworks. The single-storey ashlar locomotive repair workshops (NS40NW 15.02), probably contemporary, are still in use. The slag-hill (NS40NW 15.03), though reduced by recent excavation, is still a landmark.
J R Hume 1976.
Power house and general views photographed on behalf of the Buildings of Scotland series 2009.
Photographic Survey (8 July 2009)
