Old Sawmill, Fingask Castle

Circa 1915. Single and 2-storey with loft, 7-bay, L-plan sawmill in Scots Renaissance style on two levels, with lower ground to E. Squared and snecked dark whinstone rubble with stugged, tooled pink sandstone ashlar dressings; long and short quoins; steeply-pitched, double-ridged pantiled roof with crowstepped gables; battered buttresses to gable ends. Arcaded and voussoired openings at ground and 1st floors; crowstepped double-gable with corbelled step to central loft hoist door with wrought iron scrolled brackets and decorative carving to N. Long 2-storey elevation to E with square windows at 1st floor level, wide round-arched 1st floor opening to S return. Wide, steel-linteled opening to W re-entrant angle. Adjoining pantile-coped

and stepped wall forming upper level open court to W; stone forestair to lower level rising to arched opening in wall.

12-pane timber sash and case windows to upper floor level (most missing, 2006). Steep-pitched clay pantiled roofs. Recessed cast-iron rainwater goods; mostly broken or missing (2006).

INTERIOR: little remains of sawmill machinery; rectangular wheel pit and steel wheel casing to upper concrete floor to E.