Brook Street Mill, 121 Brook Street, Alva is a Grade B listed building in the Clackmannanshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 July 1986. Factory, house.

Brook Street Mill, 121 Brook Street, Alva

WRENN ID
crumbling-corner-river
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Clackmannanshire
Constituency
Alloa and Grangemouth MP: Brian Leishman (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 July 1986
Type
Factory, house
OS grid reference
NS 884 969
Coordinates
56.15194, -3.798
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Brook Street Mill, located at 121 Brook Street in Alva, is an early to mid 19th century group that includes a 2-bay, 2-storey house at the south and an adjoining 8-bay, lower 2-storey factory to the north. The building is constructed of tooled rubble with contrasting tooled squared rubble dressings.

The house features a margined and corniced door at the north, with one window on the ground floor and two on the first floor, all with 4-pane glazing. It has one gablet dormer and two windows in the south gable, along with coped end stacks and a slate roof. There is also a rear outshot.

The factory has a wide entrance at the north and includes seven windows on the ground floor (some of which are blocked) and eight on the first floor, with some top-hinged, 2-light openings. The glazing pattern consists of two pairs of horizontal upper panes and three parallel vertical lower panes. The factory has a slate roof that is half piended to the north and features a small stack at the north end.

Local climate

Brook Street Mill, 121 Brook Street, Alva sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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