Millbank Cottage, Sauchen

Millbank Cottage is a small, rectangular, symmetrical single-storey and attic timber-boarded cottage built around 1902, by Robert Reid Shepherd, a carpenter and joiner on the Cluny estate. It was constructed on the site of an earlier stone-built, thatched cottage, which was part of the Cluny estate and historical owned by John Gordon of Cluny.

The cottage has a granite base course and overhanging eaves with bargeboards. The east elevation, which is the principal façade, is three bays wide. The ground floor has a timber and glazed door within an architraved surround in the centre bay, and architraved bipartite windows to the left and right bays. The attic floor has pitched-roof tripartite dormers with moulded timber mullions and transoms, timber apex finials (missing from the left bay), and bargeboarded overhanging eaves with kingposts. A small cast-iron roof-light is positioned in the centre bay. The west elevation has a single architraved window centrally placed. The north side elevation features a brick chimney back in the centre and an architraved window to the right. The south side elevation has a brick chimney back in the centre, with some granite rubble to the base, and an architraved window to the right.

The ground floor window openings house plate glass in timber sash and case frames, while the dormer windows have plate glass glazing in timber casement frames. The roof is corrugated iron with moulded bargeboards. Corniced brick gable-head apex stacks with octagonal cans are located to the south and north (one now truncated).

The interior includes an entrance hall with timber-boarded walls and ceiling, and a timber stair with turned newel posts. The south room has timber-boarded walls and ceiling, along with a moulded timber cornice. The north room also features a moulded timber cornice.

Millbank croft now includes the timber cottage and the earlier stone croft house, alongside a corrugated metal agricultural shed built around 2021. An L-plan range of workshop and byre buildings which dated from the late 19th century, were demolished after 2021.