Stables And Mill, Cottage, House Of Cockburn, Glenbrook Road, Currie

Stables and Mill, Cottage, House of Cockburn, Glenbrook Road, Currie

An earlier 19th-century complex of agricultural and domestic buildings with some earlier 20th-century additions and alterations, comprising a 2-storey and attic range of cottage, former cartshed and granary (now converted to dwelling), watermill and stables. The buildings are arranged in two parallel blocks: a southern block of L-plan and a northern block of rectangular plan, though originally these were four separate rectangular-plan structures—cottage, cart shed and granary with mill to the west, and a separate L-plan stable block to the north. The cottage is constructed in stugged, squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar margins and dressings; the stables, cartshed and mill are built of rubble with harl pointing, while later additions are finished in rough render.

The south elevation of the southern block features a single-storey, near-symmetrical 3-bay cottage with stugged, squared and snecked sandstone work. It has a boarded door with a plate glass letterbox fanlight at the centre, flanked by windows, with a small window to the right of the door. The roof is covered in grey slate with a piended finish. A 2-bay cement-rendered infill block links the cottage to the converted cartshed and granary, with gabled dormerheads and raised cills. To the left stands a narrow, rubble asymmetrical gable, angular to the right with a skewputt and a steeper slope to the left. A blocked opening sits at ground level to the left, with a later window to the right, and an obelisk and star finial at the apex. The side elevation of the mill sits at a lower level to the left.

The north elevation of the southern block contains a large boarded sliding door at ground level to the left and a window to the right, with a first-floor window to the outer right. A lower 2-bay rendered block to the right has large openings to a storage area at ground level with concrete lintels and asymmetrically disposed first-floor windows. An advanced 3-bay jamb to the right, part of the east elevation of the cartshed, features a panelled door with a 3-pane upper light and a small window set into a blocked cart arch opening. A former hoist door at the centre is now a piend-roofed dormerhead with a 2-pane over 4-pane sash and case window, with small windows at the upper floor to the outer left and right (6-pane over 3-pane sash and case), and a rooflight to the left. Windows throughout are plate glass sash and case or 4-pane sash and case work, with the roof finished in grey slate with lead flashings.

The mill is built of rubble with stugged quoins and has a rectangular plan with a lean-to wheelhouse against the west wall, linked to the former granary. It features a boarded half-door at ground level on the south elevation and a boarded door at the lower level to the left. The lean-to wheelhouse on the west elevation has a corrugated roof, and the water wheel and some gearing remain intact, together with the mill lade. Windows are blocked. The roof is grey slate with piended finish and lead flashings.

The stables are built of rubble with harl pointing and droved quoins. A symmetrical 3-bay pedimented block at the centre features string courses and two boarded doors at ground level with three windows at attic stage. A tall window at the centre is a 12-pane sash and case with flanking small segmental-headed windows; a half-vesica dovecot sits at the gablehead, and a cast-iron weathervane tops the structure. A 3-bay block to the outer left has a boarded door with a 6-pane fanlight, a piend-roofed hoist door above, and flanking 12-pane sash and case windows. Boarded sliding doors occupy a storage block to the outer right. An ogee window sits at the upper level of the right gable, beneath which stands a lower rendered half-piend roofed block; an 8-pane lying-sash and case window appears at the left gable, topped with a stone obelisk finial. A rubble block against the left gable has been altered and converted to domestic use. The roof is covered in grey slate with ashlar coping to the skews and coped apex stacks.