Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

BARRMILL, DUNLOP ROAD, GIFFEN MILL AND MILLHOUSELB876

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
14/04/1971
Local Authority
North Ayrshire
Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Parish
Beith
NGR
NS 36990 51330
Coordinates
236990, 651330

Description

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.

Statement of Special Interest

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.

References

Bibliography

James Dobie CUNINGHAME TOPOGRAPHIZED BY TIMOTHY PONT 1604-1608 (1876) p165. NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT Vol V p580. David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross CASTELLATED AND DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Vol III (1887-92) p194. John Hume INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND Vol I (1976) p48. Marked on 1st edition OS map of 1858; marked as corn mill on 2nd edition OS map of 1897 and 3rd edition of 1910. Donald Reid OLD BEITH (2000).

About Listed Buildings

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Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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