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Saw mill, still in use, and B-listed sluices. The mill has been in operation from at least 1826, and was possibly established on that date by Peter S Gray. The sluices were also built in the early-19th century. On the 1st edition OS map the mill is depicted as a flour mill. It is made up of an irregular rectangular mull building with a short mill lade at the east elevation. To the north is a U-plan building open to the south, and there are seven smaller associated buildings and a well. To the west two sluices form a large mill dam within Fithie Burn. On the 2nd edition OS map the mill is now a saw mill, and the main mill building has been extended to the south. The U-plan building has been altered, with the west range removed, the north range extended and separated from the east range, which is now joined to a rectangular building to the east of it forming a new U-plan building. Two of the associated buildings and the well have been removed, and a new rectangular building added. Current maps show only the southern section of the mill building remains roofed, but it is still depicted as a sawmill. Three more of the associated buildings have also been removed. The extended north range shown on the 2nd edition OS map is now depicted as Burnside House, and some of the buildings to the west are now cottages. A turbine was installed in the mill in 1904, and is possibly still extant. The sluices are within a horseshoe-plan weir, with bull-faced courses, flat coping stones. The sluices at the centre and north of the weir have the machinery intact, and lead to a mill lade.
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