Cockburn Mill

Cockburn Mill is an earlier 19th-century mill complex, with later alterations and additions. The core of the complex is a rectangular, three-story, two-bay mill, originally featuring two undershot timber water wheels on its eastern side. A two-story addition extends to the south, and a single-story-and-attic, three-bay house is situated to the north of the mill. Various outbuildings, including stables, cartsheds, a granary, a carter’s cottage, further cartsheds and granaries, and a covered cattle court running north-south to the west of the mill, complete the layout.

The mill is constructed primarily of red sandstone and whinstone, with dressed ashlar sandstone behind the north wheel and concrete margins to later openings. The west elevation of the mill features a boarded door with a multi-paned upper section at ground level on the left, a multi-paned former hoist door on the first floor above with projecting landing bracket timbers, and a window on the second floor above. A large, later tripartite window is located to the right, spanning both ground and first floor levels. A monopitch addition is set to the outer right (south), with boarded sliding doors, and another addition is set back to the outer left (north), featuring a boarded three-leaf door and a monopitch roof. The east elevation displays two undershot timber wheels, one centrally located with a window above at eaves, and another to the outer left.

Most windows are small-paned timber casements. The mill's roof is piended slate, while the south addition has an asphalt monopitch roof; the northern addition has a slate monopitch roof.

The mill interior retains much of its original machinery, including a timber shaft leading from the water wheels to inner timber wheels, a timber mechanised sieve, three stones (originally five, with the others found in the garden), rope spindles, and timber floors. The addition to the south formerly housed a kiln, now dismantled.

The house has been significantly altered, and is characterised by painted harl, concrete/ashlar margins to openings, and modern dormers with bridged gables; its roof is slate.

The outbuildings are constructed of whinstone with ashlar and some rendered margins. They comprise two ranges positioned west and southwest of the mill, running roughly north-south. The western range follows an L-plan, with a two-story section of regularly disposed bays to the right and a gabled bay to the left, terminating with a two-story carter’s cottage. The southern range is also two-story, with a single-story covered cattle court extending to the extreme south and regularly disposed bays.