Description

Earlier to mid 19th century with later additions and alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan house with lower wing at rear forming near T-plan; flanking lean-to single storey additions. Rubble whinstone to front; cream sandstone dressings; heavily-pointed rubble to sides and rear; rendered porch. Droved quoins; droved long and short surrounds to openings; relieving arches at ground; crowstepped gables and dormerheads to 1st floor windows; projecting cills throughout.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to boarded timber door centred at ground; fanlight with crossed astragals. Single windows at ground in flanking bays; gabled dormerheads to windows breaking eaves in all bays at 1st floor.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind elevation to original house. Part-glazed boarded timber door in lean-to porch recessed to right; single window in single storey wing recessed to outer right.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: projecting wing off-set to right of centre; flanking lean-to additions; gabled window breaking eaves at 1st floor in bay to recessed to outer right.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: original house with modern door in bay to left. Single storey addition projecting to outer left.

Upvc glazing throughout.. Grey slate roof; crowstepped skews; iron rainwater goods. Tall, corniced sandstone apex stacks; various cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

GARDEN WALLS: rubble-coped, rubble walls to front.

Statement of Interest

Virtually identical to the nearby West Printonan farmhouse. (see separate list entry). Noted in the Ordnance Survey Name Book as "...a comfortable dwelling house 2 stories high and in good repair", Mersington Mill has retained some of its original features - the crowstepped gables and dormerheads, original fanlight and corniced stacks being particularly notable. Rutherfurd notes a James Playfair as miller here in 1866. The former mill and associated structures lie to the SW, retaining historic fabric but altered. Original 12-pane timber sash and case windows replaced September 1998. Downgraded B to C(S) May 2000.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77773592

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)