Rosefield Mills, Troqueer Road, Dumfries

Rosefield Mills is a large woollen mill complex built in the late 19th century by Alan Crombie. It comprises three main ranges, all included in the listing.

The Riverside Mill, dated 1886, features a tall, two-storey northeast riverside frontage with a symmetrical design influenced by Venetian architecture. The building is brick with red sandstone dressings and has eleven bays. Each bay contains two giant arches enclosing wide, single-light windows with moulded lintels on the ground floor, and two arched lights with quatrefoiled tympana above panelled aprons featuring rosettes set in central diamonds on the first floor. An arched corbel table sits above the first-floor windows, supporting a parapet. The end bays are slightly advanced, forming corner towers with higher, machicolated parapets; the first-floor windows above these are overarched with traceried tympana. The central bay’s ground floor has similar treatment to the other bays, while the upper floor is designed as a rectangular panel containing a four-bay Venetian Romanesque arcade with attached columns and foliate capitals, and intersecting ogee arched blind tracery above. An inscription panel and cartouche, displaying the date, are set beneath a small, finialled pediment at the centre of a raised parapet. The river facade returns two bays beyond the tower at the south end.

The Office Block, dated 1889, is a two-storey building in a Franco-Venetian style, constructed from brick with red sandstone dressings. A central, three-stage entrance tower features a segment-headed architraved doorway, arched and keyblocked first-floor window with a balcony supported by twinned console brackets, and a top stage with circular windows set in square panels. The tower is capped with a pyramid roof featuring oculus dormers and sits above an arcaded corbel table. Recessed bays connect the tower to the end pavilions, which have paired openings to the front, featuring round-arched arches with console features at the architrave, set on an Ionic voluted impost band on the ground floor, and stilted segment-headed windows with paired shafted-mullions, with linked Corinthianesque capitals. The flank has three windows with simpler single-light treatment to the north and a single centre window overlooking the mill to the south. The building has a bracketed cornice, a colonnetted balustrade with urns, and raised circular centre panels along the front. It originally had high pavilion roofs and brattishing on the platforms, although the brattishing has since been removed. The ground floor frontage of the right-hand pavilion has been altered to accommodate a shop.

The Troqueer Road frontage, likely built around 1889, is a single-storey, seven-bay structure of brick with stone dressings. It features a semi-elliptical arch with a head set in a cartouche and a mounting at the keystone of the central bay, with flanking bays incorporating two-light round-arched windows with Ionic colonnette mullions. Pilaster strip divisions are present, with arched corbel tables between them, a cornice, and a low parapet with urn finials (two of which are missing). The second and sixth bays have been altered to create additional entrances, and modern applied signboards are present at all three entrances.