Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

GARLOGIE VILLAGE HALL, TURBINE AND ENGINE HOUSE.LB16506

Status: Designated

Documents

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Summary

Category
A
Date Added
16/04/1971
Supplementary Information Updated
12/03/2026
Local Authority
Aberdeenshire
Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Parish
Skene
NGR
NJ 78225 05494
Coordinates
378225, 805494

Description

Remains of former woollen mill factory with rubble and brick engine house to rear containing a cast-iron beam engine (installed 1830s) with a central Doric column and a 16ft flywheel. The engine beam is approximately 20ft in length. Adjoining the engine house to the south is a single-storey structure of coursed rubble, remodelled as Garlogie village hall by David Morris in 1931 with the addition of a lunette-window gablet to the south. The hall contains a 1923 hydro-electric water turbine by Escher Wyss & Cie. of Switzerland.

Statement of Special Interest

The 1830s beam engine is understood to be the earliest surviving cast-iron steam engine that remains in-situ in Scotland.

This site was de-scheduled as part of the Dual Designation Project, 2017. Listed Building Record updated, 2026.

References

Bibliography

Trove.scot – UID 18513 Garlogie Mills | trove.scot (Historic images, drawings and further information).

New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845) Volume.XII, p.1099 - 'Steam power is occasionally added when the supply of water from the Loch of Skene falls short.'

Walker and Duncan (1919) Plan survey of Garlogie Mill as existing - National Monuments Record.

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Images

Garlogie beam engine house, looking west, during daytime, on clear day with blue sky.

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