City Corn Mills, Wards Road, Elgin

City Corn Mills, located on Wards Road in Elgin, is a former corn mill built around 1912, likely by C C Doig. This two-storey and attic building has an L-shaped plan and features a pagoda kiln with a pyramidal roof. There are 20th-century additions that are not considered of merit or interest. The structure is made of tooled sandstone rubble, with polished dressings at the margins, and it has long and short quoins.

The south elevation is asymmetrical, with the kiln positioned in the left bay. There is an infilled opening at the ground floor and a small opening at the attic floor, alongside a harled 20th-century lean-to addition on the outer left. The ground floor has regular fenestration with two flanking bays to the right, and three gabled bays on the outer right. A boarded timber door is flanked by windows on both the ground and first floors, with two symmetrically placed windows in the gablehead of the attic floor. The attic also features two 2-pane skylights.

The east elevation is mainly obscured by a brick lean-to addition on the left and a flat-roofed three-storey harled concrete addition on the right. The north elevation is predominantly hidden by harled additions. The west elevation has a harled lean-to addition that obscures the ground and first floors, along with an infilled opening below the eaves at the attic floor.

The building has predominantly timber sash and case windows, with some infilled openings. The roof is covered with grey slate and has lead ridges, while the kiln ventilator features an elongated pyramidal roof with two lead louvres and a lead pyramidal cap.

Inside, the mill has been gutted, and there are no remaining features related to its original use.