Electricity House And Sawmill, Old Place Of Mochrum is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 November 1994. Electricity house, sawmill.
Electricity House And Sawmill, Old Place Of Mochrum
- WRENN ID
- outer-zinc-winter
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1994
- Type
- Electricity house, sawmill
- OS grid reference
- NX 307 538
- Coordinates
- 54.85117, -4.63777
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Electricity House and Sawmill, located at the Old Place of Mochrum, was designed by Robert Weir Schultz in 1903. This building features an L-shaped electricity house connected to a rectangular sawmill on the east side. It is a single-storey structure made of rubble, with rubble lintels and projecting cills. The square window vents have cream sandstone ashlar mullioned and transomed margins, and the windows are fitted with small-pane glazing. The building has crowstepped gables, constructed from small stones and topped with thin stone coping, and is covered with slightly graded grey slates. Small leaded eyebrow ventilators are also present.
On the south elevation, there is a door to the right, topped with a gable that has a lozenge inscribed with "1903" in the gablehead. Two windows are located to the left, while the sawmill is advanced to the right. The west elevation features an advanced gable to the right, with a door on the left and a window on the right, along with a window on the northern return. There are three window vents to the left. The north elevation is gabled, with a central door flanked by narrow windows and a square ashlar panel in the gablehead. The east elevation has three window vents to the right, with the sawmill adjoining the gable to the left.
Inside, the electricity house has timber coombed ceilings and retains its original generating machinery. The sawmill has a door on the left leading to the south gable, while the north gable is open. There is also a lean-to made of corrugated sheeting attached to the east elevation, and the sawmill is connected to the electricity house on the west side.
Local climate
Electricity House And Sawmill, Old Place Of Mochrum sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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