Balgay Linen Works, 127 South Road, Dundee

Circa 1860-64 power loom factory, calender added 1871, new front added 1911 by Thoms and Wilkie after its conversion to a cabinet factory. Elevation to South Road: single-storey and attic 11-bay office and showroom with gatepiers and smaller building to W, brick-built with ashlar details.

Showroom: central pilastered segmental pedimented doorpiece, 5 windows to either side in shallow arched recessed panels. Ashlar keystones and impost-level string course. Mutule cornice. Piended swept slate roof with 7 piended dormers. Brick-built dentil corniced stack. Plain brick rear with irregular fenestration, wallhead stack and similar dormers. Small single-storey projection to right with lunettsd, by saw-pit. Smaller single-storey and attic block toleft. 2 wide recessed bays under coved string course. 3 large metal-framed top-hopper window to left: 3 small segmental arched windows to right. 2 square section gatepiers with ashlar domed cpas link the two blocks.

Range to right of office: brick-built single-storey facade of 4 bipartit e bays added 1911 to calender house of 1871. Rubble-built elevation to yard. Tall 2-storey brick-built block to right: 2-bay elevation to street within tall recessed arches.

E elevation: 2-storey brick-built block to left with large square windows. 1860s rubble-built walls to right, 2 and 1-storey gables and high parapet to weaving shed. Brick built saw-toothed W elevation to weaving shed.

Timber seasoning sheds to W, timber-framed with corrugated iron cladding.

Weaving shed: single-storey and attic rubble-built S elevation to yard. 7 narrow-span lean-to N-lit sheds to rear.

Factory Interior: cast-iron columns bracketted to carry overhead shafting from a drive shaft on 1-section cast-iron stanchions (shafting missing). Wider S span. Timber collar-beam attic.

Office interior: panelled vestibule, glazed double doors. Stained glass vignettes of Dundee's town house, St Mary's and an Egyptian furniture-maker. Shallow relief plaster ceiling. Original light fittings. Showroom modernised.