Liverton Mill, Mill House And Byre With Wash-House And Stable

Liverton Mill, mill house and byre with wash-house and stable is a longhouse and mill dating from the 17th century, with alterations and raising in the mid to late 18th century. It is built on the site of a 14th-century mill, with a mid to late 18th-century extension to the byre and an early 19th-century wash-house and stable range at the rear. The building features chevron-tooled dressed sandstone and Welsh slate roofs, complete with stone ridge and gable copings and block kneelers. The end stacks have been rebuilt in brick, and the byre has brick and stone gable copings. The wash-house and stable range is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble.

The house is two storeys high with two windows, an off-centre boarded door, and sash windows with glazing bars. The mill, which is built into the bank, conceals part of the ground floor. To the left of the fixed-light window on the first floor is a stable door. A stone channel, approximately 60 centimeters wide, fed water to the mill wheel through a square opening with an iron grille located to the right of the window. The byre at the left end of the house features a hit-and-miss window with glazed top lights on the ground floor and a boarded door in a partly blocked opening for the first-floor hayloft. There is a single-storey left extension to the byre with a breather and a blocked pigeon cote with a ledge in the left return. The right return of the mill has a stable door on the ground floor.

The single-storey "L"-plan wash-house and stable range at the rear of the house includes stable doors and horizontal sashes with glazing bars. Inside the house, there are beamed ceilings, a firebeam, and a kitchen range from around 1800, along with four-panel doors featuring moulded surrounds on the ground floor. The mill contains late 18th-century machinery and an overshot wheel, while the byre has kingpost roof trusses. A single-storey concrete stable adjoining the east side of the stable range is not of interest. The Shaw family has occupied the property for the last 400 years, and the mill was disused at the time of the survey.