New Lanark - Buildings

Buildings

• Braxfield Row, built c1790 – a tenement block converted to ten owner-occupied houses, nine four-storey and one five-storey.
• Long Row, built c1790 - a tenement block converted to 14 three-storey houses. Ten are owner occupied, four are tenanted.
• Double Row, built c1795 – a five-storey tenement block, containing back-to-back apartments. The side facing the river was also known as Water Row. The row is currently derelict.
• Mantilla Row, built c1795 – a tenement block demolished when it became structurally unsafe. New foundations and a retaining wall have been laid, but the row has not been rebuilt.
• Wee Row, built c1795 – a tenement block converted to a youth hostel in 1994, operated by the Scottish Youth Hostels Association.
• New Buildings, built 1798 – a four-storey building containing the bell tower. The bell, which once summoned the workers to the mills, is now sounded at midnight on the last day of the year. The building contains a museum and tenanted flats.
• Nursery Buildings, built 1809 – a three-storey building that has been converted to tenanted flats. Once used to house the orphan children who worked in the mills.
• Caithness Row, built 1792 – a three-storey tenement block that has been converted to tenanted flats. Caithness is a district in the Scottish Highlands and the row was supposedly named after a group of Highlanders recruited to work in the mills.
• Village Church, built 1898 – now used for social purposes and named the Community Hall.
• Mill Number One, built 1789 – originally built in 1785 and started spinning in March 1786. It burnt down on 9 October 1788 and was rebuilt in 1789. In 1802 the mill had three waterwheels driving 6556 spindles. In 1811 558 people, 408 of them female, worked in the mill. In 1945 it had its top two floors removed. The building became derelict and was renovated and rebuilt as the New Lanark Mill Hotel. The hotel opened in 1998.
• Waterhouses, built c1799-1818 – a row of one- and two-storey buildings next to Mill Number One, converted into holiday flats.
• Mill Number Two, built 1788 - in 1811 it had three waterwheels and employed 486 people, 283 of them women. It was widened in 1884-5 to accommodate ring frames. The extension is the only brick faced building in the village. It is now used for tourist purposes.
• Mill Number Three, built 1790-92 - known as 'the jeanies house' and contained a large number of water powered jennies. It burned down in 1819 and was rebuilt circa 1826-33. In 1811 it employed 398 people, 286 of them women. It is now used for tourist purposes. It also contains a water turbine that generates electricity for parts of the village.
• Mill Number Four, built circa 1791-3 - initially used as a storeroom and workshop. It also housed '275 children who have no parents' (Donnachie and G. Hewitt). It was destroyed by fire in 1883 and has not been rebuilt. In 1990 a waterwheel was brought from Hole Mill Farm, Fife, and installed on the site of the mill.
• Institute for the Formation of Character, built 1816 – a four-storey building that is now used for tourism and business purposes.
• Engine House, built 1881 – attached to the Institute for the Formation of Character and contains a restored steam engine.
• School, built 1817 – a three-storey building that is now a museum. It housed the first school for working-class children in Scotland.
• Mechanics Workshop, built 1809 – a three-storey building that once housed the craftsmen who built and maintained the mill machinery.
• Dyeworks, built ? – originally a brass and iron foundry with its own waterwheel. It now contains shops and a visitor centre.
• Gasworks with octagonal chimney, built by 1851 - used as a store.
• Owens House, built 1790 – used as a museum.
• Dales House, built 1790 – used as business premises.
• Mill Lade - dug to carry water from the River Clyde to power the mill machinery.
• Graveyard - on the hill above New Lanark, between the village and the visitors' car park. Many of the first villagers are buried there.
• 1 & 2 New Lanark Road - two opposing two-storey gatehouses some distance from the village. These marked the entrance to New Lanark. They are now in private ownership.