Water Houses, New Lanark

Water Houses in New Lanark is a two-storey building, dating from 1809 to 1810, which was converted to residential use between 1996 and 1998. It features a 25-bay angled terrace of former stores and picking-houses located next to the River Clyde, straddling the tailrace, and terminating in a piended northern block that is positioned at right angles to the rest of the terrace. The structure is made of roughly coursed sandstone rubble with cream droved ashlar dressings, and it has long and short quoins. The western side has generally regular fenestration with tabbed margins, while the eastern side has irregularly spaced single and two-leaf timber-boarded doors.

The northern terminal block has a two-bay gable facing the river and four bays on the return to the west over a segmental-arched culvert. The northern end is abutted by battered walls of mill terracing, which are topped with decorative iron railings, and a river embankment wall. The building predominantly features 16-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, grey slate roofs, and ashlar-coped skews and stacks.