Mill Number One, New Lanark is a Grade A listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. Cotton mill.

Mill Number One, New Lanark

WRENN ID
south-terrace-weasel
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1971
Type
Cotton mill
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

1785-86; burnt and rebuilt 1788-89; reduced to 3 storeys 1945; restored to original height 1994-96; converted to Hotel use 1996-98. Imposing 5-storey, attic and basement (exposed to rear by falling ground) 17-bay, T-plan, gabled cotton mill with advanced 3-bay gable to centre with Venetian windows to outer bays and Diocletian window to gable apex. Sandstone rubble with stugged and droved ashlar dressings. Long and short quoins. Regular fenestration with tabbed ashlar margins.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: 2-leaf timber-boarded door to ground floor in depressed arch entrance. Semi-circular wheel arches to S elevation (now with timber-board doors to centre and stone infill to flanking arches); 2 small dormers to front and rear elevations.

12-pane glazing to front and 6-pane to rear in timber sash and case windows. Ashlar-coped skews. Grey slate roof.

INTERIOR: 2nd floor of jack-arch construction supported on inverted T-section beams.

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