Breast Mill House, Newliston Road, Kirkliston Village

The Breast Mill House is an 18th-century house, raised in the earlier 19th century, prominently situated on Newliston Road in Kirkliston Village. It is a symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay rectangular building, with single-storey blocks attached to the north. The ground floor is of rubble construction, while the upper floors are of squared and snecked rubble with stugged ashlar margins and quoins. Recent flooding has affected the ground floor rubble. Later additions have been made to the rear of the house in the early 21st century.

The west (main) elevation features a central doorway. The ground floor windows are smaller than those on the first floor, and the first-floor windows are positioned under the eaves. A window is set to the right of a single-storey gabled service block on the left.

The east (rear) elevation has a single-storey, piend-roofed projection to the left, built of stugged rubble with chamfered arrises around the windows. The rear of the main block is now presented as a front elevation, and a rendered extension with a central glazed corridor extends to the right.

On the west elevation, a gable is apparent, and a window with an ashlar margin is located on the ground floor to the right.

The windows are sash and case, with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slate, with red pantiles covering the rear projection. The roof also features ashlar coped skews and coped end stacks.

To the northeast of the Breast Mill House, on the boundary between Breast Mill and Breast Mill House, are outbuildings. These may have originated in the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century, and a possible later lowering of the wallhead. The two-storey, rectangular-plan outbuilding is constructed of random rubble, retaining remains of chamfered quoins on the south corner. It has a piended roof covered in red pantiles. The south elevation displays a door and a tall window at ground level, with a relieving arch above the door. Blocked windows are visible below the eaves. The north elevation is two-bay and asymmetrical, with an enlarged window with an ashlar lintel to the left at ground level, a narrower window to the right, and a smaller window directly above it. The west elevation seems to represent a former adjoining building’s inner wall, with paired blocked chimneypieces at ground level, a relieving arch over the left opening, and evidence of a blocked window on the first floor. The east elevation is blank, with remains of a wallhead stack.

A continuous, gabled range of three outhouses runs parallel to the rear of the Breast Mill House, dating to the 19th century. Constructed of rubble with some whitewash, the roof levels vary, with the highest point at the centre. They are covered with red pantiled roofs, with ashlar skews to the centre block. The west elevations of the outhouses are partially whitewashed. The centre building features a blank, recessed bay framed with dressed stone quoins, with a former doorway partially blocked as a window. The southernmost range is loosely constructed of rubble, with tiles resting directly on the wallhead, and includes narrow ventilation slits.