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Latitude: 55.7279 / 55°43'40"N
Longitude: -4.5973 / 4°35'50"W
OS Eastings: 236990
OS Northings: 651330
OS Grid: NS369513
Mapcode National: GBR 3B.D5ZK
Mapcode Global: WH3PP.C918
Plus Code: 9C7QPCH3+53
Entry Name: Giffen Mill, Dunlop Road, Barmill
Listing Name: Barrmill, Dunlop Road, Giffen Mill and Millhouse
Listing Date: 14 April 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 331319
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB876
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Barmill, Dunlop Road, Giffen Mill
ID on this website: 200331319
Location: Beith
County: North Ayrshire
Electoral Ward: Dalry and West Kilbride
Parish: Beith
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Mid 18th century millhouse and adjoining early 19th century fomer mill.
Millhouse: 2 storeys 3 bays, set back from road; central door with lugged architrave and bolection-moulded frieze and cornice. 3 windows to 1st floor, possibly enlarged. Painted margins and roll-moulded surrounds to windows; moulded eaves course. Painted cement harl.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: 3 bays, enlarged openings; single storey piend-roofed wing to centre, lean-to in re-entrant angle to L.
UPVC glazing. Grey slates laid in diminishing courses; stone ridge; straight stone skews to principal elevation, sawtooth with beaked skewputts to rear; end stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
Mill: on sloping site breaking forward from house; roofless and derelict (2003). Long 2-storey range with basement at gable and rear; range to L with forestair. Irregularly-spaced openings. Doocot in N gable; small painted relief owl sculpture below (see Notes). Sawtooth skews. Some original machinery remains inside.
INTERIOR OF MILLHOUSE: not seen (2003); apparently nothing original survives.
The former corn mill has lain empty and derelict for some time. Originally the building was limewashed with a slate roof. The owl sculpture set into the north gable reputedly came from the ruins of Giffen Castle, the stronghold of the Montgomeries of Giffen. In the mid 18th century material from the castle was apparently used to build the mill and later the millhouse. A photograph in Reid shows a view of the the mill from the rear as it was intact.
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