Kilncraig's Despatch Warehouse
The Kilncraigs Despatch Warehouse is an industrial building in the Scottish town of Alloa in the Council Area Clackmannanshire . It is one of two buildings of the Kilncraigs Mills that have survived to this day , a wool mill that has operated at this location since 1814 and has been successively expanded. In 1972 the building was included in the Scottish List of Monuments and finally upgraded to the highest category A in 2004.
description
The building is located southeast of the city center of Alloa and formed the southwestern end of the company premises. It is adjacent to a cemetery and is not far from the historic Tower House Alloa Tower . The architecture firm William Kerr, John Melvin & Son planned the building in the 1930s. In 1936 it was built on the foundations of a structure from 1924. The mill's second surviving building from 1904, which was also planned by William Kerr , is directly adjacent to the north .
Although the new building is designed in a much more modern way, it takes up motifs from the neighboring building. The six-story warehouse building has a basement. The masonry is made of reinforced concrete and is partially clad with red sandstone . Brick is also installed on the ground floor . The windows on the long side are arranged on nine vertical axes, which are arranged in the scheme 1–7–1. Except for the axis on the right edge, there are twin windows at ground level. On the third and fourth floors, on the left, a motif from the adjacent building is taken up, in which the slightly protruding windows are decorated with pillars . With the exception of the ground floor, the opposite side of the building corresponds to the one described. The building ends with several parallel, slate-covered hip roofs with skylights .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
Web links
- Entry on Kilncraig's Despatch Warehouse in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
Coordinates: 56 ° 6 ′ 46.1 ″ N , 3 ° 47 ′ 25.1 ″ W.