Milkbank House
Date 9 November 2010
Event ID 915795
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/915795
Large two and three storey country house in Scots Baronial style with crowsteps, turrets with candle-snuffer roofs, corbelling and a porte-coche. Appears on the 1st edition OS (1:2;500 series) map as an L-shaped building, by the 2nd edition a considerably larger footprint is evident - it is unclear whether an earlier building was extended or replaced by the current building.
Boyd asserts William Ogle purchased Milkbank from his cousin in 1895, having been in India since 1874 where his business interests included partnership of the firm Jardine Skinner & Co of Calcutta and presidency of the Bank of Bengal. He is noted as retiring to Millbank in 1897 having had the present mansion house built there, then serving as a JP for Dumfries. (Boyd, 1908)
Although demolition of the structure is understood to have been sought in the post-war period, it would appear Milkbank was unroofed and gutted rather than the site being cleared.
