Newmill is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. Farmhouse, kennels.
Newmill
- WRENN ID
- graven-bronze-pine
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse, kennels
- OS grid reference
- NO 540 959
- Coordinates
- 57.05225, -2.75853
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Newmill is a traditional farmhouse dating from around 1800. It is a two-storey building with an attic and has a rectangular plan. The exterior is made of coursed pink granite rubble with long and short dressings.
The southeast elevation is symmetrical, featuring a replacement two-leaf boarded timber door with glazed panels at the center of the ground floor, flanked by a window on each side. The first floor has regular fenestration. The northeast elevation is gabled and harled, displaying an asymmetrical design with a window off-centre to the right on both the ground and first floors. There is a lean-to addition on the outer right with an infilled opening.
On the northwest elevation, the design remains asymmetrical, with a stone lean-to addition on the left side of the ground floor and an off-centre window to the right. The roof has two two-pane skylights, and there is a boarded timber lean-to on the right side of the ground floor, featuring irregular fenestration and a boarded timber door with six glazed panels at the re-entrant angle to the left. A single window is off-centre to the right on the first floor, and there are two modern skylights in the attic.
The southwest elevation is gabled and blank. The windows are predominantly modern timber with top hoppers. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and features a stone ridge, stone skews, and coped granite gablehead stacks with octagonal cans. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron and PVCu.
The interior was not seen in 1999.
To the south of the house, there are kennels built around 1900. These are single-storey, five-bay structures with a rectangular plan, made of coursed rubble with harling. The kennels have irregular door and window openings, overhanging eaves, and a slate roof that sweeps down to the west. A coped granite stack breaks the eaves to the west and has both octagonal and round cans. There is a coped rubble enclosing wall to the east, topped with ironwork railings that form two runs.
Local climate
Newmill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 73 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 51 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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