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Latitude: 55.8908 / 55°53'27"N
Longitude: -3.1181 / 3°7'5"W
OS Eastings: 330167
OS Northings: 666977
OS Grid: NT301669
Mapcode National: GBR 60NB.Q4
Mapcode Global: WH6T1.26GB
Plus Code: 9C7RVVRJ+8Q
Entry Name: Steading, Melville Mains
Listing Name: Melville Mains, South Range of Steading
Listing Date: 15 February 1991
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 345883
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB12939
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Melville Mains, Steading
ID on this website: 200345883
Location: Lasswade
County: Midlothian
Electoral Ward: Midlothian East
Parish: Lasswade
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Farmstead
Late 18th century. 2-stage dovecote, possibly formerly a kiln, terminating a range of single and 2 storey buildings, probably a former flour mill, extending to W on ground rising gently in that direction. Squared and coursed rubble.
DOVECOTE/KILN: ashlar band course to mid; eaves course; pyramidal roof with platform for missing apex ventilator. Door to N elevation. Interior now lined with stone nests. S elevation has raggle of gabled range, formerly adjoining at right angles (see notes). Single storey, 3-bay range to W with ridge ventilator, linking 2 storey ranges with later, altered openings at ground; small windows to lofts (probably former granaries). Wooden boarded doors. Grey slates.
This range may have been a flour mill, first shown in its present form on the 1790 Estate Plan together with a secondary range adjoining at right angles to the S, and a range of cottages, also to the S, neither of which now survives. The steading was expanded with additional ranges to the N by 1810, and with a horsemill adjoining the S elevation of this range. The N wing mentioned above was demolished before 1831. The large kiln suggests that this was an important grain mill for the Melville Estate. Date of conversion to a dovecote is unknown. The horsemill does not survive. Currently in use as a store.
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