Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

WEST MILL STREET, LOWER CITY MILLS, TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRELB39578

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Group Category Details
100000019 - See Notes
Date Added
20/05/1965
Local Authority
Perth And Kinross
Planning Authority
Perth And Kinross
Burgh
Perth
NGR
NO 11485 23722
Coordinates
311485, 723722

Description

John Stewart, Wright, between 1803 & 1808 in present form, probably incorporating earlier fabric. 3-storey, 4-x 5-bay, mainly rectangular former mill block, oversailing its tailrace and with pyramidal-roofed former kiln with roof vent at SE corner. Rubble with smooth raised margins. Canted SW corner. Regular rectangular openings. South elevation with off-centre, later, 2-leaf timber entrance doors.

INTERIOR: (seen, 2009). Much of the internal mill workings are intact, including the low-breast paddle wheel to the W, although none are currently in use (2009). These include the elevator, sack hoist, an electric grain dryer and shelling stones. The S section of the mill has been converted to offices.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows, some with lower external timber shutters. Grey slates. 3 piended roofs to main section.

Statement of Special Interest

A Group with 57 and 57 West Mill Street; West Mill Street, The Old Granary and West Mill Street, Ramada Perth Hotel (former city mills).

This is an important early survival of a former mill from Perth's industrial past which retains much of its internal workings. The footprint of the building remains little altered from the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey Map of 1860 and the building is an important part of the streetscape.

This mill acquired its present form after a fire in 1803 but it is likely to contain some earlier fabric, as a mill is depicted on the earlier, 1783 map. It is marked on the 1st Edition Map as a corn mill and a barley mill. It was latterly in use as an oatmeal mill and stopped production in 1953. The building now houses the Tourist Information Centre.

This area was served by the town's lade which brought water from the River Almond. This mill was part of a complex which included an upper mill, a flour mill, a lower mill, an oatmeal mill and a granary and offices. The upper mill is now the Ramada Perth Hotel and the old granary is now flats (see separate listings). The other buildings have been demolished.

List description updated as part of Perth Burgh Resurvey, 2010.

References

Bibliography

Inset Map in The Counties of Perth & Clackmannan, James Stobie, 1783 National Library of Scotland. 1st Edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1859-60. John Gifford, The Buildings of Scotland: Perth & Kinross, 2007 pf642. Information from Canmore database at www.rcahms.gov.uk

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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