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Kettleholm, Milkbank House
Country House (19th Century)
Site Name Kettleholm, Milkbank House
Classification Country House (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Millbank
Canmore ID 215098
Site Number NY17NW 49
NGR NY 14036 76077
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/215098
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish St Mungo
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY17NW 49 14036 76077
Milkbank House is depicted on the OS 1st Edition map (Dumfriesshire, sheet LI, 1862). It was demolished in the 1950s or 1960s.
Information from RCAHMS (HMLB), May 2002.
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.
