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Dumfries, Troqueer Road, Rosefield Mills

Tweed Mill (19th Century)

Site Name Dumfries, Troqueer Road, Rosefield Mills

Classification Tweed Mill (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Rosefield Mill

Canmore ID 68566

Site Number NX97NE 114

NGR NX 97347 75461

NGR Description Centred NX 97347 75461

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Troqueer (Dumfries-shire)
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Nithsdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

Archaeology Notes

NS97NE 114 centred 97347 75461

(Location cited as NX 974 753). Rosefield Mill, built 1886-94 for Charteris Spence and Co., architect Alan Crombie. Two large 2-storey ranges of red-brick buildings, with single-storey workshops behind. The more ornate is a 3- by 22-bay block with machicolated corner towers and a central divice. The other is a 9- by 34-bay structure with Italianate corner towers. Both have round-headed windows in the upper floors. There are 2 fine octagonal chimneys. Built as a tweed mill, now in multiple occupation.

J R Hume 1976.

Rosefield Mills, Troqueer Road. Massive woollen mill by Alan B Crombie, 1885-9, all of red brick with sandstone dressings.

J Gifford 1996.

Site Management (25 June 1998)

Tall 2-storey NE riverside frontage to former woollen mill complex. Symmetrical, Venetian manner, brick with red sandstone dressings. 11 bays, each comprising 2 giant arches enclosing wide single-light windows with moulded lintels at ground floor and 2 arched lights with quatrefoiled tympana over panelled aprons with rosettes set in central diamonds at 1st, arched corbel table above bearing parapet. End bays slightly advanced as corner towers with higher machicolated parapets, 1st floor windows overarched with traceried tympana. Central bay has similar treatment at ground floor, upper floor, treated as rectangular panel containing 4-bay Venetian Romanesque arcade, attached columns with foliate capitals and intersecting ogee arched blind tracery above. Inscription panel, and cartouche with date under small finialled pediment at centre of raised parapet. River facade returns 2 bays beyond the tower at the S end. (Historic Scotland)

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