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Summary

Description

1834-6, 2-storey and attic L-plan, rubble-built, iron

framed flax and jute mill. The oldest mill faces Dens

Road; next was the 14-bay mill in Cowan St. The two are

linked by a 6-bay extension to the Cowan St Mill, fully

completed 1851-7.

Dens Road: 2-storey and raised attic 12- by 3-bay mill.

W elevation: 2 tripartite sash and case windows for beam

engine house towards N end of mill. Original boiler house

in ground floor of mill in 3 bays to N (adjoining later

boiler house excluded from list), and 2 widely spaced

windows at 1st floor. Blind 2nd floor, raised in later

19th century. E elevation: ground floor arcade at N to

boiler house. Projecting stone stair by engine house.

Upper wall carried on stout flanged cast-iron columns with

massive cruciform brackets and large cast-iron beams

inserted in 1860s for access from preparing sheds. Upper

floors similar to W elevation with later lift and wc block

at N. Fenestration at N elevation forms an inverted triangle

with door at base, 2 windows to ground floor boiler house,

3 closely spaced windows at 1st floor and 3 more widely

spaced windows at 2nd floor. Small oculus and flat-topped

finial to N gable. Regular 3-storey 3-bay S gable, with

small oculus and flat-topped finial.

Cowan St: long 2-storey range with cornice and original

attic, built in 3 stages. A regular 14-bay mill with

small engine room marked by a round-headed window at W end.

Complex 6-bay link to Dura St mill, partially recessed and

corbelled, including 2 windows with cast-iron mullions at

1st floor. N elevation: upper wall carried on stout flanged

cast-iron columns inserted in 1870s. 1st floor similar to

S elevation but part with small late addition, brick with

hipped roof, over loading bay, originally a courtyard.

E elevation 2-bay ground floor, with later loading door.

Single window combined with a hoist door at 1st floor.

Cornice, window, oculus and flat-topped finial to gable.

Windows at 1st floor of Cowan St Mill are 12-pane sash and

case, rest are later 19th century 10-pane top-hoppers.

Interior: Ground and 1st floors fireproof. Flanged

cast-iron columns carry cast-iron beams (with eyelets at

1st floor of Dens Road block), brick arches and wrought

iron-ties. Dens Road mill has steel reinforcements and

a single-span timber roof from later 19th century. Heavy

cast-iron columns, beams and massive brackets carry the

N and E walls at ground floor level. Original plastered

timber roof with wrought-iron ties over Cowan St mill,

with continuous skylight to N and single skylights to S

Concrete floor inserted in engine house. Fine spiral stair

with ashlar newal.

Statement of Special Interest

List excludes 2-storey office at Dura St, 1865 weaving shed,

extended to Brown Constable St for spinning in 1889, and

1860s-70s preparing shed in angle of mills.

Opened in 1836 by J and H Walker of Blebo Mills, Dura Den, near

Cupar, Fife. In 1873 Harry Walker and Sons moved to Caldrum

Works and P J Walker carried on Dura Works. James Scott acquired

Dura Works in 1888 to spin yard woven at Mid Wynd Works, and

Dura Works is now the major surviving building that belonged to

this significant company.

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