Panmurefield Cottages, Balmossie, Dundee

The Panmurefield Cottages, located in Balmossie, Dundee, date to circa 1839. They consist of a row of four single-storey, three-bay cottages with an attached two-storey stable and industrial block to the west. The cottages are constructed of rubble, with pink sandstone dressings, originally harled but now with much of the harling falling away. They have grey slate roofs and ashlar and brick stacks. The block to the west is of coursed rubble whinstone with pink sandstone dressings, also originally harled and with a grey slate roof, piended at the east end. The cottages feature 12-pane sash and case windows, with painted margins and boarded or missing frames.

The south elevation shows the cottages on the right; each has a central door flanked by windows. A stop-chamfered angle is at the far right, and there is a blank return elevation. Ridge tiles are visible, and the cottage on the left is slightly higher with vents and terracotta ridge tiles. The industrial block has a door and three windows at ground floor and four windows at first floor. An advanced bay of brick and rubble is on the left, the result of a fire, and there are ventilators at the ridge and margined angles.

The west gable has two gabled bays, with a brick lean-to on the left concealing an entrance. A large door is at first floor level, and there is a blank bay to the right.

The north elevation is blank on the cottages to the left, with lean-to projections, whilst the block to the right has doors and various windows, and has been altered with lean-to additions.

The interior of at least one cottage includes a cooking range. To the east of the west block is a four-stall stable with timber trevises, and the roof is a King post design.

The cottages form a group value context with Balmossie Mill, the Balmossie Road Bridge over the Dichty Water, Bleachfield House/Tenement, and the Panmure Bleachfield, Road Bridge over Dichty Water. The Panmure bleachfield was established in 1839 by Daniel Drimmie of Aberdeen, expanding on the earlier Balgillo bleachfield previously managed by the Wemys family. It closed in 1932. The cottages represent a good, though somewhat dilapidated, example of early 19th-century workers' housing. Remnants of the bleachfield remain, including a brick shed that incorporates a dovecot.