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Kirkcudbright, Millburn Street, Kirkcudbright Old Mill
Grain Mill (18th Century)
Site Name Kirkcudbright, Millburn Street, Kirkcudbright Old Mill
Classification Grain Mill (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kirkcudbright Corn Mill; Old Mill Pottery; Lochhead Pottery; Mill Burn; Shillinghill
Canmore ID 95222
Site Number NX65SE 111
NGR NX 68730 51223
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/95222
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkcudbright
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX65SE 111 68730 51223
(Location cited as NX 688 515). Kirkcudbright Old Mill, late 18th to early 19th century. A two-storey and attic, rubble building on an L plan, with a circular-section kiln vent. Now gutted and converted to a studio pottery.
J R Hume 1976.
Kirkcudbright Corn Mill has been operating as the Old Mill Pottery since the late 1940s.
Information from RCAHMS (LKFJ), March 2002.
This mill stands on the N side of the Mill Burn, by which it has evidently been powered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 August 2009.
Publication Account (1978)
A large cluster of mills grew up in the area known as Millburn, located north of the town. An eighteenth century corn mill is still extant, a two-storeyed, whitewashed building of rubble, brick and slate with a rear kiln (MacLeod, 1973, 28).
Information from ‘Historic Kirkcudbright: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1978).
