Rosefield Mills, Troqueer Road, Dumfries

Large woollen mill complex by Alan Crombie; 3 principal ranges

included in listing, comprising:

a) Riverside mill dated 1886. Tall 2-storey NE riverside

frontage, symmetrical, Venetian manner, brick with red

sandstone dressings. 11 bays, each comprising 2 giant arches

enclosing wide single-light windows with moulded lintels at

ground floor and 2 arched lights with quatrefoiled tympana

over panelled aprons with rosettes set in central diamonds

at 1st, arched corbel table above bearing parapet. End bays

slightly advanced as corner towers with higher machicolated

parapets, 1st floor windows overarched with traceried

tympana. Central bay has similar treatment at ground floor,

upper floor, treated as rectangular panel containing 4-bay

Venetian Romanesque arcade, attached columns with foliate

capitals and intersecting ogee arched blind tracery above.

Inscription panel, and cartouche with date under small

finialled pediment at centre of raised parapet. River facade

returns 2 bays beyond the tower at the S end.

b) Office block dated 1889. Franco-Venetian, 2-storey

symmetrical brick with red sandstone dressings. Central

3-stage 1-bay entrance tower, segment-headed architraved

doorway, arched and keyblocked 1st floor window with balcony

on twinned console brackets, top stage with circular windows

set in square panels, pyramid roof with oculus dormers on

arcaded corbel table. Single recessed bays link to end

pavilions, paired openings to front, round-arched with

console features at the architrave on Ionic voluted impost

band at ground floor, stilted segment-headed windows,

paired shafted-mullions with linked Corinthianesque capitals,

3-window flank with simpler single-light treatment to N,

single centre window over mill to S. Bracketted cornice,

colonnetted balustrade with urns, and raised circular centre

panels on main front, high pavilion roofs, brattishing of

platforms recently removed. Ground floor frontage of right

hand pavilion altered as shop.

c) Troqueer road frontage of mill. Probably built 1889.

Single-storey 7-bay frontage, brick with stone dressings, semi-elliptical arch with head set in cartouche and mounting

at keystone at centre bay, flanking bays have 2-light

round-arched windows with Ionic colonnette mullions.

Pilaster strip divisions, arched corbel tables between,

cornice and low parapet with urn finials, left hand 2 missing.

2nd and 6th bays have been altered as additional entrances,

modern applied signboards at all 3 entrances.