Sauchiemill

Sauchiemill is an 18th-century former water-powered grain mill with an attached single-storey and attic barn/cart shed located on lower ground to the east. The building has a rectangular plan and is constructed from rubble. It underwent an interior refurbishment in the 1980s to create teaching and exhibition spaces.

To the west of the mill, there are no remaining mill machinery as of 2003. The north elevation features some inserted openings, including large double doors and a single door, along with loft windows. The wall plates are exposed on the north and south elevations. There is a two-storey lean-to on the north side and a later replacement single lean-to at the northwest corner. The building has dressed droved quoins and dressed stone surrounds for some openings, with coursed rubble walls. Ashlar skews are present, and raggles in the east gable suggest a heightened roof level or possibly the roof pitch of a former building that was attached to the east.

Inside, there is a circular recess near the ground floor level on the south elevation, which was a former opening for wheel machinery. The modern interior is open to the roof and features an inserted timber staircase and an inserted first floor to the east, along with a timber-lined ceiling. A coloured glass window, installed in 1989, is located in the west gable and illustrates fish, the Howietoun Fishery summer house, and the Milnholm Hatchery footbridge, inscribed with 'HOWIETOUN THE CRADLE OF AQUACULTURE EST 1881'. This window was dedicated to the memory of Sir James Maitland and unveiled by Michael Forsyth MP on 28th July 1989.

The barn to the east has a large double door and a window on the north side, with blocked windows in the attic. There is a single-storey lean-to on the south side. Various changes in stonework may indicate the incorporation of an earlier building and alterations to window and door openings. The barn is built of random rubble, with an ashlar skew and stack on the east gable.

The interior of the barn has been modernised, and internal doors connect the ground and first floors with the mill. The roofs are slate-pitched, with slate lean-to roofs, and the barn roof line is lower than that of the mill. There are raised slated sections in the barn roof for ventilation, along with modern timber glazing and boarded doors from the late 20th century.