Achingale Mill is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. Mill.
Achingale Mill
- WRENN ID
- pale-storey-thistle
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- Mill
- OS grid reference
- ND 240 534
- Coordinates
- 58.46285, -3.30342
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Achingale Mill is a tall, three-storey L-plan mill built in the early to mid-19th century, constructed entirely of rubble. The north arm of the mill features a kiln topped with a piended roof and two squat, square wooden ridge vents. At the east gable, there are two over-shot wheels, one large and one small, both powered by an overhead wooden lade that leads from the bank to the south, into which the mill is built. A large timber cantilevered square chute extends from the south elevation, interrupting the wallhead and connecting to the piended roof. At the rear, there is a lean-to that includes a small gabled dormer, linking the south elevation with the bank. The roofs are covered with piended Caithness slate.
Local climate
Achingale Mill receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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