Mill House, Nisbet Hill

Mid 19th century with later alterations and additions. Single storey with attic, rectangular-plan, 3-bay house with later single storey additions to rear. Stugged ashlar with droved ashlar dressings; harl-pointed whinstone and sandstone rubble to side and rear elevations; harled modern platform-roofed additions. Base course, eaves course.

SE ELEVATION: advanced bay to centre with polished ashlar advanced, simple porch with ashlar lean-to to gable above; bipartite Tudor-arched window to gablehead, heraldic emblem above (see Notes). Window with ashlar canopy above to each flanking bay.

NW ELEVATION: truncated window to centre, at 1st floor. Single storey additions at ground (1978 and 1981); that to left projecting NE beyond line of house.

SW AND NE ELEVATIONS: crowstepped gable to each.

6-pane timber casement windows (see Notes); traceried window to bipartite at centre; variety of windows to rear. Graded slate roof with harled wallhead stack to each side elevation gable. Modern box-dormers to flanking bays to SE and to left of NW. Droved ashlar coping to crowstepped gables.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1996.

BRIDGE: bridge over lade formerly leading to mill, to SE of house. Rubble and skew (forming tunnel-like effect).