Bellow Mill is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 November 1979. 1 related planning application.

Bellow Mill

WRENN ID
turning-rampart-sunrise
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Constituency
Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 November 1979
Address
Bellow Mill, KA18 3LJ
OS grid reference
NS 598 215
Coordinates
55.46778, -4.21917
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Bellow Mill is a courtyard farm building, rebuilt in recent years. It is of particular group value as the birthplace of William Murdoch, who introduced gas lighting and other inventions. The mill is referenced in the 3rd Statistical Account, page 668.

Local climate

Bellow Mill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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