Eagle Mill, Victoria Street, Dundee

2-storey and attic 15-by 3-bay coursed rubble pattern shop with mansard roof for Dens Works Foundry, 1864, extended 1930 by narrower 9-bay block to E and 2-storey 2-bay block to W with hipped roof and simple Art Deco pediment. 1-storey 8-bay 1930 front to spinning shed and 2-bay corner with stepped pediment. Eagle, ornate clock and urn finials missing. 1930 sections have windows set in recessed panels and 2 loading doors below mezzanine windows. Similar small door inserted in 1864 building. Plain mansard gable to E. All windows are 1930 metal-framed.Interior of multi-storey section iron-framed with 2 rows of cast-iron columns carrying brick arches. Most ground floor columns replaced by steel and concrete in 1930. Fine gothic cast-iron roof on 2 rows of clustered columns (same design as Upper Dens Mill). 1930 extension steel and concrete framed with bowed steel truss roof. Single-storey 1930 steel-framed N-lit sheds. Steps leading to tunnel to Dens Works, and basement jute warehouse.

Originally the pattern shop for Baxter Brothers Foundry where Baxters own machinery and structural work was manufactured. Became in 1930 the main modern jute spinning plant of Low and Bonar Ltd, the only new mill built between the wars.(Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)

22 July 2014: Local planners nominate the complex for the Register. The condition of the site has been of concern for some time, a number of units within the complex have been in use by seperate business but of these only one, a smithy, is thought to remain. The site has recently been purchased as a whole entity for redevelopment. For Investigation.

13 May 2016: External inspection finds the extensive former mill site in overall poor condition. Rainwater goods are blocked in many places, stonework is damp in sections and eroding/ delaminating in others. The Victoria Road elevation has multiple broken windows and roof slates are visibly overhanging the mansard roof. The north-lit sheds to the rear of the site are overall in better condition. The site is in partial, possibly mixed, use. Move to At Risk.

29 May 2018: Full Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent for conversion to form 34 apartments, a nursery and business units are being sought ref: 18/00326/FULL & 18/00325/LBC.

31 October 2018: Consents (previously noted) for conversion of the mill have been conditionally approved.

15 February 2022: Listed building consent (22/00078/LBC) being sought for alterations and new build extension to existing listed building, including refurbishment to basement area.

22 February 2022: Urban Realm reports (14/02/2022) that works to the mill are to enter a second phase with proposals to restore the 'sawtooth' profile of the building. James Paul Associates will lead on the work and employ a 'light touch' to ongoing renovations.