Mill Farm, Aberdour is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 July 1998. Farmhouse, steading. 5 related planning applications.
Mill Farm, Aberdour
- WRENN ID
- moated-keystone-rowan
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1998
- Type
- Farmhouse, steading
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mill Farm is an early 19th century farm group, with later additions, located in Aberdour. The group consists of a two-storey, three-bay classically detailed farmhouse, a U-plan steading situated slightly to the rear, and boundary walls. The farmhouse has a rectangular plan and includes a single-storey entrance porch, a two-storey single bay extension to the South, and a single-storey, single bay wing to the Northwest. The steading incorporates stables, a byre, and a mill.
The principal elevation of the farmhouse is of droved ashlar, with the Northwest gable also in droved ashlar. The entrance porch is of stugged sandstone, the Southeast gable is rendered, and the rear is of random rubble. The farmhouse features long and short ashlar quoins with an ashlar band course. The steading's Northeast gables are of droved ashlar, with random rubble elsewhere, whitewashed within the courtyard.
The principal, Northeast elevation of the farmhouse displays a symmetrical four-bay design. The earlier three-bay section is to the right, with a slightly advanced centre bay containing a projecting flat-roofed porch and a Venetian window at the first floor, which breaks the eaves in a shallow gable. Regular fenestration is present in the flanking bays. A later bay is recessed to the outer left, again with regular fenestration. A single-storey wing is recessed to the outer right, with a central window. The Northwest elevation shows a plain gable with an ashlar band course. The Southwest, courtyard elevation has irregular fenestration to the ground floor of the earlier house; a partially infilled door is offset to the right of centre, with an entrance door to the later addition on the right. A window is centred at the first floor of the earlier house. The Southeast elevation has a window to the right at ground level. A flush-panelled timber entrance door is present, alongside modern glazed doors to the North wing. The farmhouse has 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is pitched and covered in grey slates, with a piended North wing. Coped ashlar skewes are present on the principal gables, along with a stugged sandstone gable apex stack and a ridgeline stack with polygonal cans.
The U-plan steading features a two-storey and basement North range, which incorporates a former saw mill, an adjacent wheel pit, a byre, and a granary. The West range is two-storey and contains a byre and a hay loft at ground and first floors, respectively. The South range houses stables, farmhand accommodation, and a hay loft above. The North and South gables of the steading have droved ashlar elevations with narrow band courses between storeys and eaves courses. Central doors with first-floor windows above are present on each gable, and there is a single-storey lean-to to the centre left of the North gable. Stone steps lead to a loft door on the South range. A small square opening (for a mill wheel axle) is found on the North range. Internally, the South range has timber-panelled window shutters, a shelved press, and a fireplace with an iron grate. Timber boarded doors are present, with some surviving 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The South and West ranges have piended grey slate roofs, while the North range has been altered to a corrugated-iron mono-pitch. A coped stugged sandstone ridge stack is centred on the South range.
Boundary walls with a semicircular cope to a rubble construction enclose the garden to the East and the farmyard to the South.
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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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