Buchanan Mill, Milton Of Buchanan

The Buchanan Mill, situated on the east bank of the Burn of Mar, is a late 18th and early 19th century corn mill that has been converted into residential use in the early 1990s. It is a rectangular, two-storey building constructed of rubble stone with an iron and timber mill wheel located on the southwest gable. The mill is a good example of well-detailed industrial architecture for its type, period, and size. It retains its original millwheel and internal machinery, despite the alterations needed for its change of use.

The building appears to have been constructed in two phases. The original rectangular section was later extended to the northeast gable. This addition, though built of slightly different stone, is of a similar late 18th and early 19th century character, suggesting it was added shortly after the original section. The original extent is clearly marked by dressed quoins.

The southeast elevation features a segmental cart arch with dressed stone voussoirs, supporting two-leaf timber doors with a modern glazed screen behind. To the left of the arch are three windows on the ground floor and a larger window on the first floor. To the right of the arch, the ground level drops, with stone steps leading to a timber-boarded door under a rough relieving arch; adjacent is a small secondary mill lade that runs underground to the southwest.

The two-bay northeast gable has a large modern rubble, timber and glass conservatory projecting to the right and continuing around to the rear (northwest) elevation. The rear elevation has a window and two sets of French doors (in altered openings) on the ground floor, and two windows on the first floor.

The southwest gable is dominated by a timber and iron mill wheel, partially sunk into a pit. The wall behind the millwheel at the lower portion is constructed of tooled ashlar rather than rubble.

The interior of the mill has been largely modernised, but original mill gears have been preserved at the southwest end. The building is constructed of random rubble stone, with tooled rubble quoins and margins, and some cills, lintels, and jambs formed from rubble slabs. The pitched roof is covered in graded slates, with some rooflights. Most of the windows are timber sash and case windows with 4 and 12 panes.