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Summary

Description

1834-6. 3-storey and attic 2-by 17-bay red sandstone

rubble-built flax mill, iron-framed at lower floors.

N elevation central blocked arched cart entry at ground

floor, 3 large loading doors, apparently original, and

5 large asymmetrically-placed windows. 4 blocked

windows to basement flax store at E end of mill below

bipartite which replaced in circa 1840 a larger loading

door or engine house window. Symmetrically-placed

large 1st and smaller 2nd floor windows. S elevation

17-bay with central depressed arched cart entry flanked

on each side by altered loading doors, 2 windows and

blocked loading doors below symmetrically placed

external stairs (removed) to 1st floor doors at each

end of mill. 1st and 2nd floor windows as N with central

dormer hoist over 2nd floor door. Narrow 2-bay E and W

gables with skewputts. 2 arched openings to E basement.

Slate roof with small skylights. 8-pane 1st floor and

6-pane 2nd floor casement windows.

Interior: iron-framed basement, ground and 1st floor.

A single row of cast-iron columns carry cast-iron

beams stapled to shallow brick arches tensioned by

wrought-iron ties and intersected by boxes for gearing,

belts and hoists. 2nd floor cast-iron columns carry a

lengthwise timber beam supporting wooden floor of small

timber attic.

Statement of Special Interest

After the Coffin Mill, the longest of the 4 large-scale

1830s flax mills in the city, with an unusual and

primitive form of iron-frame. Feued in 1834 by C and R

Milne. Owned in 1836 by R G Holden and Co with a 60hp

engine, and later by J H Blakey; Blakey Holden and Co;

Swan Brothers; and the Hillbank Spinning Co. The ground

floor was primarily a warehouse, hence the numerous

doors. Spinning was carried out above and in 2 smaller

mills, circa 1840, with main engine house, and circa

1880, both demolished.

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