Quendale Mill And Steading

Quendale Mill and Steading is a late 19th-century (1867) former grain mill, comprising a central block with wings and a kiln, forming a T-shaped layout. The building is constructed of random rubble stone with stugged sandstone dressings.

The south elevation is asymmetrical and single-storey (with a concealed lower floor). It has four bays, with a pitched roof over the central two. A vertically-boarded timber door and a four-pane fixed window are located to the right, while the left bay and the kiln on the outer left are obscured by a later addition (Richard Gibson, 1990).

The north elevation, also asymmetrical and single-storey over a lower floor, features a pitched roof over a two-bay central section. The left bay has a nine-pane fixed window and a vertically-boarded timber door at ground level, and a nine-pane fixed window in the gable at the upper floor. The right bay houses an overshot cast-iron waterwheel with timber paddles, made by James Abernethy of Aberdeen, at the lower floor. Water to the wheel comes from a timber lade from the west, and the wheel well is enclosed by a rubble wall. Smaller windows flank the wheel at an intermediate level, with a nine-pane fixed window centring the gable above. The kiln is recessed to the outer right, with a lean-to at the lower floor and four-pane fixed windows at each floor. A pair of cart arches with vertically-boarded timber doors are located at the lower floor on the outer left; narrow horizontal two-pane fixed windows are positioned above the arches.

The east gable has a vertically-boarded timber door centred at the upper level. The roof is covered with purple slate, with a clay tile ridge and stugged ashlar skew copes to the gables. The kiln has a pyramidal roof with a revolving timber cowl at the apex, topped with a vane and ball finial.

A restored earth dam with a stepped rubble elevation faces west, and incorporates a pair of timber sluice gates flanked by timber platforms.

The single-storey U-plan steading, located to the west, steps downhill to the north. It has harled rubble walls and a purple slate roof with cast-iron skylights, with piended corners to the southwest and northwest, and a gabled section to the east. It features vertically-boarded timber doors and lying-pane fixed lights.

Random rubble walls line the approach road and continue as parapets to a segmental-arched bridge, which has modern buttressing to the east.