Description

Late 18th to early 19th century. 2-storey and part-basement, 3-bay, rectangular-plan workshop on ground falling steeply to NE. Random rubble with squared rubble quoins and 1st floor margins, timber lintels to ground and brick margins to basement; timber clad ranges to NE and NW. Segmental-headed door with voussoirs.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: centre bay with steps up to broad doorway and 2-leaf part-glazed timber door, windows in flanking bays and further horizontal basement window to outer right. 2 small windows close to eaves at 1st floor. 4 small traditional rooflights.

NE ELEVATION: projecting timber-clad bay to ground floor over brick basement with door and adjacent window to right, and window above, further windows on canted return to left, further projecting pantiled, lean-to range outer right. Small window off-centre right in gablehead.

NW ELEVATION: timber lean-to range to ground floor, with timber-braced support to outer right angle over mill-lade?, and 2 small windows close to eaves at 1st floor and small traditional rooflight off-centre left.

SW ELEVATION: corrugated-iron roof and boarded timber NW wall to ancillary building projecting at ground over wheel-pit?. Small window off-centre left in gablehead.

Small-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case and fixed windows, vertical astragals to basement and timber-clad NE bay. Slate, pantiles and corrugated-iron. Coped rubble stacks with thackstanes and ashlar-coped skews.

BOUNDARY WALLS: semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

Built as a plash mill and powered, along with three other flax and cotton spinning mills, by the Loch Burn which passes beneath the building.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17804614

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide