Adjoining Bothy, Farmhouse, Traquair Mill

This property comprises a farmhouse, a bothy, and an adjoining cottage, built in 1779 with an early 19th-century addition. Later alterations were carried out by Benjamin Tindall Architects in 1992.

The farmhouse and cottage are two-storey, three-bay rectangular buildings in a plain classical style, with a single-storey, seven-bay bothy attached to the southwest. The farmhouse and cottage are harled and painted, with sandstone margins, while the bothy has a lime-washed rubble rear elevation. The roofs are skew-gabled without decorative features.

The main (south) elevation of the farmhouse features a central timber panelled entrance door with a plain surround and a low fanlight with curved glazing. There are windows flanking the entrance, and regularly placed windows to the first floor, with a pair of cast-iron Carron lights in the attic. The adjoining cottage has a semi-glazed timber entrance door with a low two-pane fanlight, and stone dormers with timber gables that align with the ground floor window placement. The northeast elevation of the cottage has a blind gable and a small projecting window. The rear (northwest) elevation shows the higher gabled end of the main house rising above the cottage, along with a single-windowed extension to the ground floor and a later lean-to conservatory linking the cottages’ lean-tos. The southwest elevation shows a gable of the main house rising to a gablehead stack and the adjoining bothy at ground floor level.

The bothy is a single-storey, seven-bay harled building with a door and small square windows to the left. Boarded timber doors are located in bays four and six, with rectangular windows in bays five and seven. The left return has a blind gable, while the right return adjoins the farmhouse. The rear (southwest) elevation of the bothy is lime-washed rubble, with regular early fenestration and a pair of modern Velux roof lights in the attic, alongside cast-iron Carron lights.

The farmhouse retains its original room plan and features original timberwork, including window shutters, skirting boards, and panelled doors. The bothy, renovated in 1992, now provides holiday accommodation. A mix of 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows is found throughout, along with some four-pane and plate glass replacements to the rear of the bothy, and cast-iron two-pane Carron lights to the attics. The building is capped by a pitched slate roof with replacement ridging and flashing. Tall, harled gablehead stacks have sandstone ashlar margins, projecting moulded neck copes, and hexagonal cans. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods are also present, with a gutter on the cottage crossing the windows of the attic dormers.