The Granary (former barn), Oldmills Road, Elgin

The Granary is a late-18th century former barn, now converted to a house. It is a tall, two-storey building with three bays, rectangular on plan, constructed in whitewashed rubble stone. The principal (southeast) elevation features two entrance openings and small, squared, chamfered window openings fitted with metal bars at ground floor level. A later, pedimented timber porch covers the central entrance door. The northeast gable contains a large central window at first floor level, which shows some infill, while the opposite gable has two offset window openings that were added around the time of conversion to a house in the 1980s. The rear (southwest) elevation displays a variety of openings of different sizes, including a single glazed door from the house to the rear garden.

The windows and doors throughout are replacements from the 1980s, fitted in a variety of glazing patterns in timber sash and case frames. Window openings have deep recesses internally. The interior decorative scheme dates largely from the late-20th and early-21st centuries.

The pitched roof is covered in slates with straight skews and plastic rainwater goods. Later extensions dating from around 2006 are attached to the rear (northwest) elevation, and a detached store stands in the rear garden; these are excluded from the listing.

The property is bounded along Oldmills Road by a rubble-built stone wall of differing heights, with a pedestrian entrance opening fitted with a metal gate.

A mill has occupied this site since as early as the 13th century. Oldmill appears on Roy's map of 1747-52, with most current mill buildings dating from the late-18th and early-19th centuries. The Granary is first shown in detail on Wood's map of 1822 as a rectangular-plan building, with its footprint unchanged on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1868. The Ordnance Survey Name Book of 1868-71 describes Old Mills as comprising a farmhouse, steading, several cottages and a flour mill and barley mill, historically owned by the Earl of Fife.

By the 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1904, a U-shaped extension had been added to the rear (northwest) elevation and a detached structure constructed in front. These additions were removed sometime before 1971, except for a small rear outshot later replaced by current extensions. Photographs from 1975 show the barn before conversion. The building was probably converted to a dwellinghouse in the 1980s, sometime after listing in 1981. During conversion, one window opening was blocked up and two new openings created in the southwest gable to provide better natural light to the staircase. The corrugated iron roof covering was replaced with slates, and the window opening in the northeast gable appears to have been infilled at the bottom. A detached store and rear extensions were added around 2002 and 2006 respectively.