Douglas Mill, Douglas Street, Dundee

Tow or jutemill, circa 1834-36. 2-storey and attic 10-by

3-bay iron framed rubble-built mill with double-pitched

preparing room added to N circa 1846-51. S elevation 7

ground floor windows. 4 altered to doors. 8th bay has

tall engine house window rising through 1st floor, later

converted to 2 windows. 10th bay is the stone base of a

chimney built into the mill and rising through eaves, with

brick top removed. E gable has door inserted at ground

floor. 3 1st floor windows, 2 blocked when mechanics

shop, now removed, was added. W gable has 2 ground floor

windows and door, 1 1st floor window and attic loading

door. N elevation 2 round-headed bays to boiler house,

door to stairs and engine.

Single storey preparing room with 2 doors and a blocked

window to E Iron columns carry iron beam and wall of

mill. 1st floor 3 doors, formerly linked by a platform and

6 windows.

Interior: (rebuilt in 1850s) iron framed and brick arched

with cast-iron parabolic beams and wrought-iron ties on

iron columns with bulbous capitals. Stone flagged floors.

Boiler House, at E of ground floor has 2 fluted Egyptian

columns, narrower 1835 beam, and evidence of engine

fittings. Old engine house had wooden floor inserted

stone spiral stair. Roof has curved cast-iron trusses on

short iron columns with wooden boarding at sides.

Preparing room also has a curved cast-iron roof.