Old Tay Works Mill, 25 Brown Street, Dundee

Old Mill: Circa 1833-36 1-2- and 3-storey and attic iron

framed flax mill, rubble-built, consisting of:

(a) 1834-6 3-storey and attic 10-bay mill with 3-bay

gable to Brown St. Gable with hoist door at 2nd floor

and 2 windows in attic. Projecting 1-by 2-bay stair and

hoist doors with pedimented gable, oculus and the base of

a small bellcote at E. Windows in N elevation blocked,

others are multi-paned sash and case, some with original

hoist doors. Tall engine house attached to E gable with

2 round-headed windows each to N and S, 1 with larger

door inserted for replacement of engine.

(b) W wing circa 1836, 3 storey with smaller attic,

7 bays to Brown St and blank S gable with skewputts and

flat-topped finial. Windows 4-paned casement to Brown

St and multi-paned sash and case to rear.

(c) 1849-51 2-storey batching house forms U-plan with

mill. Walls partially hidden by later concrete external

stairs. Piended roof. Court roofed in 1860s with

kingpost trusses and ground floors of 2- and 3-storey

blocks is carried on stout flanged iron colonnades. 1-

storey batching shed with piended roof added to S,

circa 1889-91. Slate roofs.

Interior iron framed and brick arched with stone

flagged floors. Oldest mill has 2 rows of iron columns

with Bell capitals, eyelets and no tie-rods visible.

W wing has a single row of columns. Fine spiral stair.

Timber collar-beam roofs. Engine house has massive

masonry base, wooden stair, platforms and a large

belt-driven pulley.

West Mill: circa 1851, between dyeworks and the Lochee

Road block. 2-storey rubble iron framed block for

batching, preparing and winding with 5 wide arched

ground floor doors. 14 large cast-iron brackets held

lean-to roof (glazing removed) linking with the main

mill. Iron framed interior. Pieneded slate roof.

Engine House to N 1851, rubble with 2 round-headed

windows, cornice, parapet and piended slate roof.

Interior plastered and painted with decorated corbels

and timber roof. Was used to drive the first power-loom

factory (demolished) and later the N section of Lochee

Road block. N elevation blank, with cornice, adjoining

1851 square-section-chimney, rubble to the height of

the engine house, brick beyond, with firebrick at the

top.