Barnhourie Mill, Sandyhills

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/11/1971 Last Date Amended 10/03/2023 Supplementary Information Updated 14/03/2023 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Colvend And Southwick NGR NX 88996 55317 Coordinates 288996, 555317 — Description: Barnhourie Mill is an L-plan, two-storey, former corn mill, dating to around the late 18 th century. The mill is set on a steeply sloping site with an external timber and iron waterwheel on the north side of the two-storey east end next to the Barnhourie Burn. Former grain storerooms are attached to the northwest elevation of the mill. It is built in whitewashed random rubble with rough-hewn quoins. The principal (southwest) elevation is on sloping ground and the two-storey section to the right houses the mill machinery. It has a central doorway with gablet over the door flanked by short windows. The southwest elevation of the attached grain store features two timber boarded doors each with a small two-pane window to the right. The mill has a slate roof with small cast-iron rooflights. The interior of the mill retains some 18 th or 19 th century machinery including three millstones and a significant amount of the mill machinery gearing wheels. The grain storerooms feature a fireplace and some boarded wall panelling. In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: detached cottage to northwest. Historical development A settlement at Barnhourie is first marked on James Dorritt's 1750 map and also on Roy's 1752 Map of the Lowlands both of which name it as "Barnhurry". The first edition Ordnance Survey Map (surveyed 1849, published 1854) shows the named the Barnhourie Mill and neighbouring cottag

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.