The Old Mill, Achiltibuie is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.
The Old Mill, Achiltibuie
- WRENN ID
- scattered-arch-cobweb
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- OS grid reference
- NC 018 090
- Coordinates
- 58.02626, -5.3568
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Mill is an earlier or mid-19th century, three-storey, four-bay former mill, now converted into a dwellinghouse. The building is constructed of coursed rubble stone, with a dressed rubble wheel gable on the west side.
The south elevation features two modern projecting porches, four square windows, and a round-headed hoist loft with a stone slab sill. Above the hoist loft is a larger vent, and there are three smaller vents on the second floor. The north elevation has a first-floor entrance and four small, round vents located below the eaves of the second floor.
The roof is covered in slate. The site is steeply sloping to the rear (north), bringing the first floor almost level with the ground. The building is unusually large for the area around Achiltibuie. The mill wheel has been removed. John Hume’s The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland (volume 2, 1977, page 291) provides further information.
Local climate
The Old Mill, Achiltibuie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,800 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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