Barlay Mill, Laurieston Road
Description: Barlay Mill
Category: C(S)
Date Listed: 4 November 1971
Historic Scotland Building ID: 32032
OS Grid Coordinates: 260141, 557347
Latitude/Longitude: 54.8912, -4.1821
Location: Laurieston Road, Dumfries and Galloway DG7 2BD
Locality: Laurieston Road
County: Dumfries And Galloway
Country: Scotland
Postcode: DG7 2BD
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Listing Text
Late 18th century in origin with 19th century additions and alterations. Small group of 3 gabled corn mill buildings, sited on falling ground and aligned in a rectangular plan on roadside with conduit to N. Rubble whinstone wih granite dressings, whitewashed; shlar coping.
Earliest and tallest block to N (threshing barn); 2-storey with former whell to N gable, position indicated by ashlar masonry. Sliding machinery door to W elevation, flanked by windows. Door to upper floor (grain store') on E elevation, entered from bank.
Centre section single storey with loft; door to far left and machinery door to right in W elevation; later, brick gabled loft door on E elevation.
Single storey cottage (in poor condition 1991) adjoined to S with door to left and window to right on W elevation and futher door on S return; blank at rear.
INTERIOR: not seen (1991).
Grey graded slates. Skylights to centre block and cottage. Ashlar ridge tiles and ventilators. Small, coped single stack to cottage.
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A plaque attached to the W roadside elevation, centre block, reads "Home of James Faed - millwright and Mary McGeoch, his wife. Birthplace of John Faed, engraver, Susan Walthew or Faed, artist. Erected by The Galloway Association of Glasgow 1982." Barlay Mill is marked on Ainslie`s Map of 1797.
Source: Historic Scotland
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