Wyllie's Mill, Mill Street, Drummore

This is a circa 1906 two-storey and basement former mill, built on the foundations of a building dating after 1848. The mill is prominently situated at the foot of Mill Street in Drummore. The building’s exterior is primarily painted brick, with painted rubble at the basement of the west elevation. It features painted raised brick quoins and quoined margins, and shallow segmental lintels.

The west (Mill Street) elevation has nine bays arranged as 4-1-2-2, with a ground-floor entrance in the third bay from the left and the third bay from the right. The fenestration is regular, except for a blank window at the first floor in the bay on the far right. Band courses separate the floors. A small water wheel is located to the far left at basement level, and a wall adjoins the building between the second and third bays on the left.

The water wheel is a high breastshot design, constructed from iron with sheet metal brackets and 24 spokes.

The north elevation is M-gabled and clad in sheet material at ground and first floor levels. It incorporates a wide machinery opening to the right at the basement level. Two windows are positioned at ground and first floor levels in both gables, alongside a central ground-floor door to the right gable. A painted wall adjoins the right side of the north elevation, terminating in a rendered gatepier topped with a pyramidal cap. The south elevation is M-gabled and blank.

The roof is covered with purple slates, featuring coped skews to the south.

The building’s rubble basement suggests that earlier foundations were reused in the construction. Historic maps indicate the building was not marked on the 1848 Ordnance Survey map, but was shown on the 1906 map without shading, possibly indicating it was in ruins or under construction at that time. According to some sources, the mill’s floors and cast-iron uprights came from a building used in a Glasgow exhibition around the turn of the 20th century. While known as Wylie’s Mill, it has reportedly always functioned as a grain store, with the water wheel powering a grain bruiser and grain dresser. The name Wylie’s Mill derives from a previous owner.