Millburn House, Millburn Road, Dalserf

Millburn House, located on Millburn Road in Dalserf, dates from around 1780 and has undergone later alterations and additions. This tall, three-storey, three-bay former Dower house features a symmetrical plain classical rectangular plan with a raised pedimented bay at the center. It is constructed from stugged cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, and includes a base course, a cill course at the first floor, an eaves course, and a cornice. The windows have raised margins, and the central bay is accented with strip pilasters and raised strip quoins.

On the northeast (principal) elevation, there is a painted, architraved, and corniced doorpiece at ground level in the central bay, featuring a replacement two-leaf timber panelled door with a rectangular fanlight above. Each floor above has a window, and there are windows in each bay flanking the central bay.

The southwest (rear) elevation has a replaced modern stair window with boarded timber panels between the panes, spanning all floors in the central bay. Similar to the front, there are windows at each floor in the flanking bays, and two box dormer windows are evenly placed above.

The southeast (side) elevation consists of a two-bay wall, with a window at ground level in the left bay and windows at each floor in both bays above.

The northwest (side) elevation features a single-storey piended addition with a window to the northwest and a replacement timber door to the northeast, along with a small flanking window to the right. There is also a two-storey pitched addition in the left bay, which includes a window at the first floor and a circular motif at the gablehead, with a window at the second floor above.

The house has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, along with modern fixed stair windows and dormer windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and the additions have slate as well. There are multi-flue ashlar coped ridge stacks and cast-iron rainwater goods, with some uPVC replacements.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1997.

To the west of the house, there are gatepiers made of droved cream sandstone with stop-chamfered angles, a cavetto moulded cornice, and stepped pyramidal caps. A low stugged sandstone ashlar wall section with a ridged cope is located next to a similar pier on the right-hand side.