Preston Mill, East Linton

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 05/02/1971 Local Authority East Lothian Planning Authority East Lothian Parish Prestonkirk NGR NT 59480 77882 Coordinates 359480, 677882 — 18th century watermill and kiln, possibly incorporating earlier structure, with later additions. Single storey outbuilding enclosing yard. Random whinstone rubble, rough dressings, some renewed in brick. Single storey mill building, walls raised to accommodate milling floor and loft. W ELEVATION: entrance to left, timber surround to door. Small window to outer right. Door to loft above in tiled and slated swept dormer. Additional modern slated dormer to right. Undershot wheel to S gable, right of centre with small opening above. Sandstone facing behind wheel. Access to kiln via wooden bridge from loft doorway in N gable. INTERIOR: functional elevators and hoppers, shelling stone and grinding stone. Machinery dating from 1930s. Red pantiles to roof. Circular brick-lined kiln adjoining to NW. Access to kiln floor at ground via stone porch to N Stone forestair to drying floor, doorway breaking eaves in swept dormer. Drying platform of perforated iron tiles. Similar doorway to left adjoining wooden bridge to mill. Lean to additions at rear. Red pantiles to conical roof, renewed cowl. 2-storey mill cottage and stable to E now accommodating exhibition and shop. — Built to serve the Smeaton-Hepburn estate. Maintained by The National Trust for Scotland since 1950 with the aid of Messrs Rank Hovis McDougall Ltd. Notable for its survival in working order.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.