Knowes Mill is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 May 1989. Mill house.
Knowes Mill
- WRENN ID
- vacant-lancet-oak
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1989
- Type
- Mill house
- OS grid reference
- NT 606 780
- Coordinates
- 55.99354, -2.6325
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Knowes Mill is a mid-18th century, two-storey, three-bay mill house that has been extended with lean-to outbuildings by James Hannan and Adam Dickson in 1854. The building is harled with painted ashlar margins.
The west elevation, which serves as the entrance, is symmetrical and features three bays. It includes a small fanlight above a boarded door, with additional windows located in the outbuilding on the outer left. The east elevation also has three bays, with a former stair window at the center that is partly obscured by a later projecting stair block.
On the north gable, there are lean-to outbuildings and a raised chimney breast at the center of the main gable, which stops at the eaves level. A small attic light is present in the gable head. The south gable is blank but has a small attic light.
The windows are sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern, along with some smaller windows featuring 4-pane glazing. The building has raised skews and gable wallhead stacks that are harled and original to the south gable, complete with thack stanes. The roof is covered with pantiles, while the lean-to additions have a corrugated asbestos roof.
Local climate
Knowes Mill receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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