South Anchor Mill, Anchor Lane, Dundee

Circa 1846 enlarged 1850s 2-storey and attic 13-bay jute

mill, with 2 engine houses at W added circa 1865. Rubble

elevation to Anchor Lane now harled with ground floor

windows blocked. 1st floor metal framed windows, 2

blocked. Small gable to lift housing at W end. Rubble E

and W gables with skewputts, flat-topped finials and early

flat-topped ventilators in slate-roof. Rubble-built S

elevation with ground floor opened out in the 1850s and

wall carried on stout iron columns and cast-iron beams.

2 rubble circa 1865 engine houses with piended roofs, 1

has a tall round-headed window to N and S, and 2 arched

windows to E, 1 altered. Lower, wider factory engine

house with blocked bipartite.

Interior ground floor brick arches on cast-iron columns

and beams. 1st floor 2 rows of iron columns carry

length-wise wooden beams and wooden ceiling with concrete

laid on top. Attic curved cast-iron roof couples on columns

with bell capitals. Engine houses have had concrete

floors and a fire escape inserted.