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Round-Ended Barn, Carsluith Cornmill

A Category B Listed Building in Mid Galloway and Wigtown West, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8657 / 54°51'56"N

Longitude: -4.3529 / 4°21'10"W

OS Eastings: 249092

OS Northings: 554860

OS Grid: NX490548

Mapcode National: GBR HHMV.GT9

Mapcode Global: WH3TW.3YGR

Plus Code: 9C6QVJ8W+7R

Entry Name: Round-Ended Barn, Carsluith Cornmill

Listing Name: Carsluith, Corn Mill and Round-Ended Barn

Listing Date: 17 December 1979

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 342508

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB10105

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Carsluith Cornmill, Round-ended Barn

ID on this website: 200342508

Location: Kirkmabreck

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West

Parish: Kirkmabreck

Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire

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Description

Dated 1817 over door. Water-powered grain mill. Detached to N, round-ended barn.

MILL: rectangular rubble building with squared granite margins and quoins, built into fall of land. Wheelpit to W gable, wheel removed. Some internal machinery survives, gearing and 2 pairs of milestones. Granite end skews, ball finial to E gable apex, good graded slate roofs. Sandstone ridge.

BARN: long rubble-built barn, at S end site falls steeply and end is apsed; internal floor level is stepped. Squared rubble to openings ventilating slits. Good graded slate roofs.

Statement of Interest

The round-ended barn is a puzzling feature. It does not appear to have been either a corn drying-kiln or a horse mill, and any specialised usage is unknown beyond simply a barn and byrne. The round-end may simply be the result of the lack of good freestone in the vicinty, providing the easiest and cheapest alternative. The siting is dramatic.

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