Millpond Dam, Mains Of Applecross, Applecross is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Millpond dam.
Millpond Dam, Mains Of Applecross, Applecross
- WRENN ID
- silver-pavement-marsh
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Millpond dam
- OS grid reference
- NG 712 442
- Coordinates
- 57.43123, -5.81173
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Millpond Dam at Mains of Applecross is a mid-19th century structure made of squared rubble. It features a sluice with grooved jambs that were used for a former sluice gate. The top of the wall is finished with roughly tooled coping stones.
Local climate
Millpond Dam, Mains Of Applecross, Applecross sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,140 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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