Building record MAB32710 - GLAMIS MILL

Saw mill and mill slap (mechanism to deliver water to the wheel), built in 1806 by William Baxter and Son of Dundee, architects.

Saw mill and mill slap (mechanism to deliver water to the wheel), built in 1806 by William Baxter and Son of Dundee, architects. In 1810 a steam powered steam engine was added. It was first operated as a flax mill, then converted for used a bobbin mill and used finally as the saw mill for Strathmore estate. It is shown on the 1st edition OS map as a rectangular building by a mill lade, with a rectangular and an irregular-plan building to the south, and is named 'Waulkmill'. On the 2nd edition OS map, the irregular building has been altered to an L-plan building, and there have been three rectangular buildings added. It is no longer named Wailkmill. Current maps show the building by the mill lade has been altered and most of the rectangular buildings to the south have been removed. It is now depicted as a saw mill. The building by the mill lade is used to house the water wheel rather than being the mill itself. It is a single-storey and attic rubble-built building with ashlar quoins and a corrugated-iron roof. The timber wheel-house is on the south-east elevation. Documentary research by J Gilliatt records that the mill, possibly of 18th century origin, was converted to a turning mill in the mid 19th century and by 1865 was being operated by Johnston and Baillie (listed in an 1877 business directory as bobbin makers). In 1895 the premises were listed as unlet. Although the turning premises appeared in the valuation roll until 1925, no bobbin or wood turners were recorded as living in Glamis after 1891. It was converted to a sawmill in the early 20th century, and a new waterwheel installed. A standing building survey was carried out in June 2011 by Scotia Archaeology prior to the building being repaired to enable it to house a turbine for a new hydro-electric scheme.

Period Notes
Hume suggest an 18th C date, but elsewhere the mill is attributed to Baxter, 1806. It was listed on 15/01/1980.

A/63608/PO, A/63608/PO (Photograph). SAB23045.

A/63609/PO, A/63609/PO (Photograph). SAB23046.

A/63610/PO, A/63610/PO (Photograph). SAB23047.

AN/6953/PO, AN/6953/PO (Photograph). SAB23044.

SCOTIA ARCHAEOLOGY, 2011, GLAMIS MILL, GLAMIS, ANGUS: STANDING BUILDING SURVEY, SBS (Bibliographic reference). SAB1708.

GILLIATT, J, 2018, BOBBIN MILLS IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND (Bibliographic reference). SAB4244.

Aug 20 2002 , GR/02/CT332-335, GR/02/CT332-335 (Ground Photograph). SAB36982.

Jun 20 2013 , AAS-GR-13-06-398 - 409, AAS-GR-13-06-398 - 409 (Ground Photograph). SAB35257.

Record last edited

Feb 27 2025 12:20PM