Minnigaff Mill is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Mill.

Minnigaff Mill

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1971
Type
Mill
OS grid reference
NX 410 661
Coordinates
54.96421, -4.48416
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Minnigaff Mill is a four-storey former corn mill built in 1823, which was converted to residential use in 1992. The building is constructed of rubble with squared granite quoins and rybats, featuring chequered quoins at the southeast angle. The third floor has smaller square windows.

On the east elevation, there are approximately four bays arranged in a 1-2-1 pattern. A modern door is positioned out of line to the right bay, just left of center. The fenestration is regularly arranged, except for some windows that are out of line on the left at the ground floor and on either side of the first floor in the bay to the left of center.

The south elevation has a window on each floor to the right of center.

The west elevation, prior to conversion in 1991, also has four bays in a 1-2-1 arrangement. The second and third floors feature regularly disposed fenestration, while the first floor has three irregularly arranged windows and the ground floor has five irregularly arranged windows. There is an area of rubble-faced and stugged granite in the bay to the left of center, which was the original location of the water wheel. A stone inscribed "I B 1823" is located at the ground floor in the bay to the right of center.

On the north elevation, there are windows to the right of center at the ground, first, and second floors. The glazing varies, with some small-pane glazing, including 12-pane sash and case windows, 6-pane glazing on the upper floor, and some tilt-and-turn windows. The roof is covered with graded grey slates and features a piended design. There is also a piend-roofed single-storey former workshop range to the southeast, which was converted to residential use in 1992.

Local climate

Minnigaff Mill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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