Mill Cottage in Balriggan

Detached three-bay two-storey former gate lodge, built c. 1860, now in use as private house. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks, red brick corbelled eaves course, cast-iron gutters. Uncoursed rubble limestone walling, tooled rubble plinth, red brick quoins. Square-headed window openings, red brick block-and-start surrounds, dressed granite sills, painted timber casement windows . Square-headed door opening, red brick block-and-start surround, painted timber and glass panelled door. Attached random rubble stone boundary wall to north-east and north-west, vehicular gateway to north-west, segmental-headed carriage arch opening, tooled limestone ashlar lugged and shouldered, profiled metal sheeted gate, square-headed pedestrian entrance to immediate north-west, tooled limestone surround, painted timber vertically sheeted door. Road fronting north gable end, mature farmland surrounding to east, south and west.

This fine stone building originally functioned as a gate lodge to an adjacent corn mill which has since been demolished. The fine carriage arch and pedestrian entrance survive as reminders of this original function. T