Steading, Melville Mains

The building at Melville Mains is a late 18th-century, two-stage dovecote, which may have originally served as a kiln. It is positioned at the end of a range of single and two-storey structures that likely comprised a former flour mill, extending to the west on gently rising ground. The exterior is made of squared and coursed rubble.

The dovecote or kiln features an ashlar band course at the midsection and an eaves course, topped with a pyramidal roof that has a platform for a missing apex ventilator. There is a door located on the north elevation. Inside, the walls are lined with stone nests. The south elevation shows a raggle from a gabled range that was formerly attached at a right angle. To the west, there is a single-storey, three-bay range with a ridge ventilator, which connects to the two-storey sections that have later altered openings at ground level. Small windows are present in the lofts, which likely served as former granaries. The building features wooden boarded doors and is covered with grey slates.