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Glasgow, 8-24 Falfield Street, Falfield Cotton Mill

Mill (19th Century)

Site Name Glasgow, 8-24 Falfield Street, Falfield Cotton Mill

Classification Mill (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 39 Mauchline Street; 14, 16, 20 Stromness Street

Canmore ID 107116

Site Number NS56SE 163

NGR NS 58432 63940

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/107116

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  • Council Glasgow, City Of
  • Parish Govan (City Of Glasgow)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District City Of Glasgow
  • Former County Lanarkshire

Recording Your Heritage Online

Falfield Power-loom Cotton Works, 8-38 Falfield Street, 1821

Red brick four-storey workshop for G L Walker & Co. Rubble gable, with small bellcote finial, and adjoining stairtower at corner of Stromness Street, all cast-iron columns and timber floors. 14-20 Stromness Street, 1861, stone-fronted three-storey brick extension, part iron framed. 39 Mauchline Street, 1866. A three-storey brick warehouse, with cast-iron columns and timber beams, containing a tiled boiler house and an engine house to power the weaving sheds over.

Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

Architecture Notes

NS56SE 163 58438 63955

NS56SE 2060 58436 63936 8-24 Falfield Street, Falfield Cotton Mill

NS56SE 2061 58430 63917 26-38 Falfield Street, Falfield Cotton Mill

NS56SE 2062 58411 63919 14, 16, 20 Stromness Street, Falfield Cotton Mill

Glasgow, 8-38 Falfield Street, Falfield Cotton Mill

This partly cut down 18 bay red brick power loom mill dates from about 1840. The lower stone wing was buiilt about 1861.

E Williamson, A Riches and M Higgs, 1990.

It has been suggested that part of the mill building originally had a 'paper' roof.

Information from Mark Watson, Historic Scotland, 1996.

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Project (2011)

Headland Archaeology Ltd was commissioned by Glasgow City Council to undertake a programme of Historic Building Recording in connection with the M74 Completion Project. The scope of works was set out in a Memorandum of Agreement in November 2006. This report discusses the results of fieldwork at the Falfield Mill, Glasgow which formed Work Package 4 in the overall programme; the programme of work included a desk-based assessment, detailed survey of the building and a watching brief on demolition work.

Falfield Mill dates from around 1820 and was used as a cotton and silk mill until around 1900 when it was sold and the buildings were subdivided. The complex included an early spinning mill with attached engine and boiler house, later extended to the south. Weaving sheds, powered by an additional steam engine from the 1860s, where built to the W of the spinning mills in 3 phases.

Headland Archaeology 2011

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