West Range, Steading, Cairn's Mill, Fogo

West Range, Steading, Cairn's Mill, Fogo

This complex comprises a cottage, a mill steading, and a former corn mill, all part of an 18th and 19th century industrial landscape at Fogo.

Cairn's Mill Cottage is possibly of 18th century origin with additions and alterations from the early to mid-19th century and later. It is a low 2-storey building with the first floor breaking the eaves as a later addition. The main cottage is a 3-bay structure with a full-height later wing at the rear, forming a near L-shaped plan. A gabled porch projects to the front, and a lean-to porch occupies the rear re-entrant angle. The walls are constructed of harl-pointed rubble, partly whinstone, with sandstone dressings. Quoins and window surrounds are droved, and projecting stone cills are a feature. The front (southwest) elevation shows a timber-panelled door in the gabled porch at centre, with single windows in flanking ground-floor bays beneath pentice sandstone canopies. The side elevations retain evidence of the original cottage structure, with offsetting windows indicating the building's phased development. The rear wing has a recessed 2-bay section with timber door and window openings. Joinery includes timber sash and case windows with 4-, 8-, and 12-pane glazing, some with lying panes, and skylights. The roof is grey slate with raised stone skews. Brick apex stacks serve the northwest and northeast, with various circular flue cans. The northeast rear elevation was not examined during the 1998 survey.

The Mill Steading, positioned to the southeast, probably retains 18th century fabric. It consists of harl-pointed rubble walls with sandstone rubble dressings, droved quoins, and droved long and short window surrounds with projecting cills. A coped rubble wall encloses a courtyard to the south. Many openings have been bricked up, and timber doors and lintels remain. Glazing is predominantly missing, though skylights are scattered throughout. The north range is roofed in red pantile, with grey slate covering the remainder. Raised stone skews and a brick ridge stack to the north are present. Interiors were not examined.

Cairn's Mill, positioned to the northwest, is a 2-storey former corn mill with an attic and integral kiln to the north. A single-storey lean-to sawmill addition adjoins at the rear, with a taller corrugated-iron faced addition beyond. The mill is built of harl-pointed rubble with whinstone elements and droved sandstone dressings. The main west elevation is 3-bay, with single windows at both floors in the outer right bay, a 1st-floor loading door offset right of centre, and a large 2-leaf ground-floor door in the left bay. The lean-to addition features a square-headed opening with a lade running through. A full-height kiln is recessed to the outer left. The side and rear elevations show various openings, predominantly now blocked, and the taller eastern addition is faced with corrugated iron. The north elevation features a piended-roofed former kiln and a full-height addition with a large corrugated-iron door. Most windows are blocked; skylights are regularly distributed. Roofing includes corrugated iron and a grey slate piended roof to the kiln, with raised skews and marine-type ventilators. The interior was not examined during the 1998 survey.