Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

KILLIN, BREADALBANE FOLKLORE CENTRE, FORMER ST FILLAN'S MILLLB8274

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
05/10/1971
Local Authority
Stirling
Planning Authority
Stirling
Parish
Killin
National Park
Loch Lomond And The Trossachs
NGR
NN 57090 32490
Coordinates
257090, 732490

Description

Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Planning Authority

Constructed circa 1840, the Breadalbane Folklore Centre was a corn mill, later a tweed weaving mill and was converted to form a visitor centre in 1994. It was probably a replacement for an earlier mill on the site. Rubble-built with a creamy (lime)wash and pointed-arch openings in Breadalbane Gothick Estate style, the mill is prominently located in Killin and looks out over the renowned Falls of Dochart. The L-plan 3-storey mill serves as an important reminder of Killin's industrial history and its significant picturesque setting has ensured that it is a landmark in the village.

The West elevation is the entrance elevation and has a broad gabled section to the right with a small pitch-roofed projecting porch with the entrance in the re-entrant angle. Above are two floors with single light pointed-arch windows. Recessed to the left is a single bay with a pointed-arch door to the ground floor and a small window to the top floor with a pitched gable breaking the overhanging eaves. The East elevation which overlooks the Falls is a near mirror-image of this elevation with the replacement waterwheel where the porch is on the West elevation. The 1994 works added a parapet with timber decking to this part of the building.

INTERIOR

Comprehensively modernised to form the visitor centre, the interior walls are mostly bare or whitewashed stone. On the ground floor the mill mechanism is visible.

MATERIALS

Rubble stone, (lime) washed in places. Mostly modern replacement fixed light timber windows with mixture of small and large panes. Predominantly replacement timber boarded doors. Pitched slate roof with flat-topped ridge ventilator.

Statement of Special Interest

It is thought that the mill stopped weaving tweed in the 1950s. The mill is noted on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map as 'Millinore (Corn)' and there is an adjoining building to the South West which is no longer extant and is desribed on the 2nd edition map as a 'Saw Mill' and the mill itself is called 'Corn Mill'.

References

Bibliography

1st edition Ordnance Survey map (1859-64). 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map (1898-1900). W A Gillies, In Famed Breadalbane (2nd ed 1987) p80-1; C McKean, Stirling and The Trossachs (1994), p105; K Riddell, Killin in Old Photographs (1996), p37; Gifford, J et al, The Buildings of Scotland - Stirling and Central Scotland (2002), p552; B Byrom, Old Killin, Kenmore and Loch Tay (2004), p5.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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