Ballinloan Mill

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On the E bank of the Ballinloan Burn, about 100m S of Ballinloan farmsteading, there are the ruins of Ballinloan Mill, a corn mill depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet lxi). It is also depicted on the 2nd edition (Perthshire 1900, sheet lxi); although still roofed, it was by then disused.

The visible remains consist of two buildings, parallel to each other with their long axes running NNW to SSE, and standing 3m apart, though as they are depicted as one roofed structure on the early OS maps (ibid) it is possible that the space between them was formerly covered. The E building comprises a kiln with outshots to NNW and SSE. The kiln measures 3m square within faced-rubble walls 0.8m in thickness and standing up to 1.7m high. The top of an arched opening is visible in its NNW wall, leading into an outshot, presumably a barn, measuring 4.5m in length by up to 4m in breadth. The second outshot, built of mortared-rubble, extends 4.5m to the SSE, with an entrance in its SSE end. The W building has been robbed and is partly obscured by vegetation and rubble, although its principal measurements can be taken: 12.8m in length by 2.9m in breadth within faced-rubble walls 0.7m thick and up to 0.5m high. The wheel pit, now filled with collapsed rubble, is on the WSW side, where it was fed by a lade running in from the N.

(Braan93 259-60)

Visited by RCAHMS (SDB), 4 November 1993

Scheduled as Ballinloan... corn mill and kiln... on the E bank of the Ballinloan Burn. Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 4 February 2003.