Mill, Commercial Road, Insch is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1992. Mill.

Mill, Commercial Road, Insch

WRENN ID
silent-porch-weasel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 May 1992
Type
Mill
OS grid reference
NJ 629 278
Coordinates
57.3399, -2.61724
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This mid 19th century L-plan mill is two stories high with an attic. It is constructed from coursed pink grey rubble granite with pinnings. The windows feature lying-pane glazing, with some being casement type and having timber mullions.

On the east elevation, there are four bays with a sunk ground floor. The ground is banked to steps and a loading platform that connects to a first-floor door, which was used for dispatching husked grain to the main mill across the road.

The west elevation has a projecting 2-by-2-bay gantry and a lean-to on the north side.

The south gable features an octagonal cast-iron axle of an overshot wheel located in an ashlar wheelpit.

The roof is slate, gabled, and piended.

The interior has not been seen. There is a rubble-built boundary wall at the rear. The lade approaches from the other side of the burn, supported by a series of mass concrete supports, although the wooden launder is now missing.

Local climate

Mill, Commercial Road, Insch receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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