East Mill, Forss is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 May 1974. Mill, house.
East Mill, Forss
- WRENN ID
- cold-pilaster-mist
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1974
- Type
- Mill, house
- OS grid reference
- ND 036 687
- Coordinates
- 58.59556, -3.65884
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
East Mill in Forss is an early 19th century mill range that includes a miller's house from the early to mid-19th century. The buildings are situated on a southwest sloping site that faces Forss Water. The mill itself is three stories tall with a six-bay southwest front and features a two-storey addition projecting from the northwest gable at the rear. The exterior is constructed of harl pointed rubble.
The mill has an off-centre door and reasonably regular window arrangement, although some windows have been blocked. The windows feature either shuttering or 12-pane glazing, and the roof is made of piended Caithness slate. A mill lade runs close in front of the building, serving an overshot wheel located at the west end of the mill.
The miller's house is set back from the southeast gable of the mill and has an entrance in a small porch located in a re-entrant. It is a two-storey, asymmetrical structure with three bays, built from thin rubble flagstone with polished flagstone dressings and margins. The right bay has a slightly advanced gable with a single window on the ground floor, two windows on the first floor, and a stack at the apex. There are two additional first-floor windows that break the eaves in gabletted dormers. A single-storey extension is located at the right gable, featuring a loft door in the centre of the gable (at ground floor level due to the slope of the site) and a rear wall made of large single stone slabs. The house has a ridge stack and a Caithness slate roof.
Local climate
East Mill, Forss sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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