Kimmerghame Mill

Kimmerghame Mill

A mid 19th-century complex of corn mill buildings, probably incorporating earlier fabric, with documented alterations from 1950 and 1951. The site comprises a mill cottage, barn range, cartshed, granary, mill tower, store, bothy range, cart range, mill house, and ancillary structures, all constructed from sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and chamfered arrises. Roofs are of grey slate with crowstepped gables featuring beak skewputts and gablehead stacks.

Mill Cottage and Barn Range

A long 2-storey range with a 3-bay cottage to the outer end and a longer barn beyond, slightly advanced to the courtyard with a rounded corner. The cottage features a door flanked by windows on the courtyard elevation at the centre and left, with gabled dormerheads above two 1st-floor windows breaking the eaves. To the right is a broad bay of near-blank wall with one ground-floor window. The rear elevation has a door flanked by a window in a right-hand bay, a further dormerheaded 1st-floor window above, a blank central bay, and a window at ground in a left bay. The end gable contains a canted and corbelled ashlar oriel window with a stone roof. The barn displays cross-shaped ventilator gunloops at its centre on the courtyard elevation, flanked to the right by a door. To the left are a door and windows with large gabled hayloft doors. The rear elevation is largely blank except for a gabled dormer window breaking the eaves to the outer left by the cottage. The end gable has a ground-floor window and a partially louvred window above.

Cartshed, Granary and Mill Tower

Positioned at right angles to the barn and cottage range, this section comprises a 3-bay cartshed with granary above, closed at one end by the mill tower. The cartshed's inner elevation features segmental-arched openings, which were blocked in 1950 with a central door and windows in the flanking arches. Granary dormerheads break the eaves above, with timber slatted lower sections and multi-paned upper sashes. The outer elevation is spanned at ground level by an implement shed (a lean-to with cast-iron columns), with two granary windows matching those described above.

The gabled tower rises in three stages. Its inner elevation has a door and window at ground, a window or loft door to the 2nd stage, and a blinded oculus to the dovecot in the gablehead. The corner at the 2nd stage is rounded with corbelling to the square. The outer elevation is also spanned by an implement shed at ground (dated 1951). A string course runs below the gablehead with a louvred, gabled opening to the dovecot above, and there is a stack. The side elevation is blank with a later lean-to at ground and a corbelled wallhead.

Store/Former Stable and Bothy Range

A free-standing 2-part gabled range with a higher western block featuring sliding machinery doors to its gable end, blocked windows on one side, and doors and a window on the other. A lower range extends on rising ground to the east with two irregular doors to the left of the south elevation and further doors to the right flanked by square windows at the centre and left. The north elevation has two doors and two windows. The higher block has corrugated roofing with tin cowl ventilators; the lower range has graded slates with zinc ventilators. Both sections display crowstepped gables with beak skewputts.

Cart Range

Sited at the centre of the complex, this gabled range has a blocked segmental arch on its east end, flanked by a door and blocked door. A lower gabled stone addition to the west contains a tall round carriage arch and sliding door, with two high windows to the north side. A later addition abuts the south side with a stone end to the east. The roof is of graded slate with crowstepped gables and beak skewputts.

Mill House

A T-plan 2-storey gabled house positioned to the east of the complex. A gabled wing projects from the centre of the main block, with a narrow window at ground and a window above. A panelled door with small-pane fanlight is positioned on the return to the right. The flanking bays of the main block each have a window at ground and 1st floor, the latter breaking the eaves in gabled dormerheads. The rear elevation facing the courtyard has a later flat-roofed single-storey addition at ground and a window to the centre of the 1st floor.

Throughout the mill house, windows are 12-pane timber sash and case. The roofing is of grey slate with crowstepped gables, beak skewputts, and gablehead stacks.

Outbuildings and Walls

A small lean-to stone outbuilding linked to the house by an overthrow to a pedestrian gateway serves as a store, with a door and small square window, and a corrugated asbestos roof.

Low dwarf walls shield the entrance elevation to the mill house, featuring semicircular coping. A taller wall by the mill cottage is similarly coped and has a large square gatepier. A lower, flat-coped wall to the other side of the gate includes a duck or hen opening at ground level.