Robert Owen's House
Robert Owen's House is a residential building in the Scottish industrial estate of New Lanark in the Council Area of South Lanarkshire . In 1971 the structure was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A. It is also part of the New Lanark World Heritage Site .
history
The building was built around 1790. With Robert Owen's House and David Dale's House, there are two residential buildings in New Lanark that were inhabited by the factory owners David Dale and his half-brother James and the operations manager William Kelly . Robert Owen later lived in one of the buildings. While the two buildings are known, it is not known which of the two houses Dale and Owen inhabited. Owen lived in New Lanark from 1798 to 1808 before moving to nearby Braxfield House . Before 1903, Robert Owen's House was divided into two units and had a function close to that of a town hall. In 1978 the building was restored and an exhibition on Robert Owen was installed.
description
Robert Owen's House is in a prominent position at the junction of Rosedale Street with New Lanark's main access road. Its masonry consists of roughly hewn quarry stone with natural stone details made of sandstone . The southwest-facing front of the two-story, elongated building is three axes wide. The double-leaf entrance door is accessible via a short front staircase. It closes with an elongated fighter window . Essentially twelve-part lattice windows are embedded along the facade . The final gable roof is covered with gray slate. It occurred drag dormers out.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
Web links
- Entry on Robert Owen's House in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 55 ° 39 '50.1 " N , 3 ° 46' 53.8" W.