Cotton Spinning Mills, 121 Carstairs Street, Glasgow

Joseph Stott of Oldham, 1884-9. Large, 4-storey and raised basement, 23-bay (bays grouped 6-1-6-1-9), rectangular plan former cotton spinning mill with Italianate stairtowers and flat-roofed, single storey and raised basement, 5-bay outshot to S and tall single storey, 6-bay arcaded range projecting from set-back face in re-entrant angle at N. Fireproof brick with red ashlar dressings. Continuous cill course and corbelled parapet. Arcaded openings to ground, semicircular- and segmental-arched openings (many blocked); keystones. Corner pilasters topped by dies.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 6-stage stair and water tower at 7th bay dividing former carding and spinning rooms, paired round-arched windows to N and S and single light to W, all keystoned; corbelled cornice and curvilinear parapet. Bay 14 (to right) with smaller 5-stage tower, similarly detailed with windows to front only. Later tower to bay 17. To left, single-storey, 6-bay office with arcaded openings (some blocked) and linking impost level string course. E ELEVATION: 27-bay, similarly detailed to W elevation without towers. Engine house formerly projected from lower 3 floors between 6th and 8th bays from N. Windows with concrete lintels inserted later in place of rope-race. 12-bay N & S elevations, similarly detailed.

Some original 9-pane central hopper glazing. Horizontal glazing pattern to tower windows. 6 roof ridges.

INTERIOR: fireproof double brick arches (characteristic of Joseph Stott) on steel joists alternately carried on cast-iron columns with lengthwise main rolled iron beams. A grid of 19 by 5 columns in larger mule spinning area and 5 by 5 columns in carding rooms, divided by rope-race, now with concrete floors inserted. Basement blowing room similar, but ceilings lower and columns thicker. S outshoot with steeply-angled N-lights with fireproof brick-arched N slopes. Ground and 1st floors predominantly subdivided.