Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

RACHAN MILL FARM, MILLSIDE, OLD MILL COTTAGE AND SAWMILL COTTAGELB46525

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
03/11/1999
Local Authority
Scottish Borders
Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Parish
Broughton, Glenholm And Kilbucho
NGR
NT 11481 34460
Coordinates
311481, 634460

Description

Circa 1845 with later additions and alterations. Asymmetrical, near Z-plan range comprising single storey with attic, 3-bay, gabled cottage to left ('Millside'); single storey, 2-bay cottage at centre ('Old Mill Cottage'); single storey with attic, 3-bay cottage to right ('Sawmill Cottage'). Millside: squared and snecked whinstone to front (rake-jointed in part); rubble at rear; droved cream sandstone quoins and long and short surrounds to openings. Old Mill Cottage: rendered; tabbed red sandstone margins. Sawmill Cottage: squared and snecked whinstone to front (rake-jointed in part); rubble at rear; droved red sandstone quoins and long and short surrounds to openings.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION, MILLSIDE: part-glazed boarded timber door centred at ground; 3-pane fanlight; bipartite window to right; gabled dormer aligned above. Projecting gabled bay to left with bipartite window centred at ground; single window in gablehead. OLD MILL COTTAGE: timber panelled door to outer left; single window subsequent bay to right. SAWMILL COTTAGE: timber panelled door at centre; single windows flanking at ground; piended, bipartite dormers aligned above.

W (REAR) ELEVATION, MILLSIDE: part-glazed boarded timber door off-set to right of centre; bipartite window to right; single windows in 2 bays to left; lean-to addition to outer left.

OLD MILL COTTAGE: L-plan with brick-built, engaged polygonal porch in re-entrant angle; various openings.

SAWMILL COTTAGE: window off-set to right of centre.

Statement of Special Interest

An interesting, free-standing cottage group, set to the N of the similarly detailed Rachan Mill Farm - see separate list entry. Apparently contemporary with the farm, the cottages are listed primarily for their group value. The early OS maps show a sluice running behind the cottages with a mill (since demolished) to the W. Old Mill Cottage and Sawmill Cottage empty 1999.

References

Bibliography

Ordnance Survey map, 1856 (cottages evident - marked with 'Corn Mill' to W). Ordnance Survey map, 1898 (cottages evident - marked with 'Saw Mill' to W).

About Listed Buildings

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