Carsluith Cornmill is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. 1 related planning application.
Carsluith Cornmill
- WRENN ID
- dusted-cornice-soot
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- OS grid reference
- NX 490 548
- Coordinates
- 54.8655, -4.35386
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Carsluith Cornmill is a water-powered grain mill dating to 1817, with a detached round-ended barn to the north.
The mill is a rectangular rubble building with squared granite margins and quoins, built into the natural slope of the land. A wheelpit is present in the west gable, although the water wheel itself has been removed. Internal machinery remains, including gearing and two pairs of millstones. The mill features granite end skews, a ball finial at the apex of the east gable, and good graded slate roofs with a sandstone ridge.
The barn is a long, rubble-built structure. The ground falls steeply to the south, resulting in a rounded, apsed end, with a stepped internal floor level. Squared rubble is visible around the openings, which include ventilating slits. It has good graded slate roofs.
The barn’s round-ended shape is unusual. It was not used as a corn-drying kiln or a horse mill, and its precise function beyond being a barn and byre is unknown. The rounded end may have been a practical solution due to a lack of suitable freestone locally. The buildings are dramatically sited.
Local climate
Carsluith Cornmill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
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