Benvie Mill And Miller's House

Benvie Mill and the Miller's House is an earlier 19th-century grain mill with an adjoining miller's house, which was raised to two stories in 1865. The complex features a rectangular-plan grain mill and a two-story, three-bay miller's house that forms an L-shape due to its position on sloping ground to the southeast. The mill is constructed of rubble masonry with droved and margined dressings and has a piended slate roof. The house also has rubble masonry, including some red sandstone in its earlier sections, with similar droved and margined dressings. The upper floor of the house is stugged and margined, and it has a slate roof, four-pane sash and case windows, with dormer windows on the first floor. The house features plain bargeboards, exposed purlin and rafter ends, and corniced ashlar ridge stacks with uniform cans that have love-heart motif vents.

On the southeast elevation, the house is to the right, featuring a boarded door at the center approached by steps, with windows on either side and two additional windows on the first floor. The mill is to the left, where there is an opening at ground level, a blocked opening at the main floor level, and a four-pane window on the first floor.

The east gable has a door to the basement, a window on the ground floor, and a brick lean-to on the left. The west elevation includes a segmental-arched cart entrance to the center right, a window to the right, and a low entrance to the wheel chamber on the left. There are two windows above on the ground floor, a door on the far left, a window on the outer left, and low stone steps that advance at the left angle. The first floor has four small boarded windows, and there are remains of a cowl at the roof ridge over the kiln to the right.

On the north elevation, the mill gable is blank on the right, with two glazed windows on the first floor of the left return elevation. There is a large pentice-roofed bay at the re-entrant angle, along with a modern boarded porch and windows, a further window, and a cart opening. The center of the house has a small window on the ground floor and a larger window on the first floor.

Inside the mill, the wheel and all machinery are intact. The house retains some original chimneypieces, a boarded dado in the ground floor room and landing, and a boarded staircase.