Lindsay Street Works, North Lindsay Street, Dundee

James MacLaren and George Shaw Aitken, 1874-5, extended to

South Ward Road by Aitken in 1881. 3-storey and attic jute

mill with French Gothic tower to Lindsay St and engine

house in yard, extended by a wider 12-bay block to a tight

gusset and 7-bay wing at South Ward Road. Rubble-built with

ashlar quoins and dressings.

North Lindsay St elevation dominated by bold French

Gothic 5-storey 1-by 2-bay stair tower with bowed W

elevation for chute. Flat, stilted arched and round-headed

windows on encircling band course, corbelled at 3rd floor

and oculus to E. 2-by 4-light segmental arched lantern.

Pseudo machicolated pierced parapet with angle pinnacles.

Banded fishscale slate roof with wrought-iron finials.

3-bay facade of mill has 2-bay gable flanked by channelled

pilaster strips, ground floor windows altered to doors,

2 round-headed 2nd floor windows and attic wheel window.

NW corner becomes a 1-by 2-bay tower above roof line with

oculi and pierced parapet.

21-bay elevation to Johnston St quoined between 9th and

10th bays to separate 1874 and 1881 blocks. Tight gusset

of Johnston St and South Ward Road quoined, with armorial

and nail-head mouldings, machicolation and short

castellated parapet. 7-bay elevation to South Ward Road

with 3 bays at ground floor altered. Segmental arched

hood-moulded pend to yard. Similar elevation to yard with

round-headed dormer fronting internal lift. 30-pane

sash and case windows and piended slate roof.

Engine house facing entrance to yard from North Lindsay

St at end of 1874 mill. 2 round-headed windows separated

by band course from doors below. 1 window now blocked by

brick lift shaft. Oculus in gable. Fine hammer beam roof.

Cast-iron beam in wall over passage for gearing to mill.

Fireproof interior: 2 rows of cast-iron columns carry

cast-iron beams, brick arches and wrought-iron ties, well

handled at gusset. Wooden collar-beam roof with inadequate

head room in side aisles formed by short cast-iron columns.

Timbers clad in sheet-iron, lathe and plaster. Timber roof

to tower.