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
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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Johnstone Arms Hotel, 48 Stirling Street, Alva
- 16 Brook Street, Alva
- Strude Mill, Alva
- Johnstone Mausoleum, Alva Churchyard
- Gates And Railings, Gatepiers, Boundary Walls, Former Dalmore School Including Ancillary Building, West Stirling Street
- Cochrane Park Hall And Gates, West Stirling Street, Alva
- King O' Muirs
- Icehouse, Alva Woodland Park
- Balquharn Bridge
- Stables, Alva House