Smigel Mill is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979. 1 related planning application.
Smigel Mill
- WRENN ID
- drifting-thatch-nightshade
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- OS grid reference
- NC 895 576
- Coordinates
- 58.49334, -3.89678
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Smigel Mill is a simple rectangular mill dating to around 1850. It was built as a co-operative venture. The building is constructed of harl-pointed rubble with tooled rubble dressings. The west frontage has four bays, with an off-centre door and one window on each floor in the two bays to the right. A kiln adjoins the mill to the left, featuring a small first-floor window on both the front and rear elevations. A loft door is centrally located at the rear, rising through the wallhead into a piended gablet. Flat skews and shaped apex finials are present, and the roof is covered with graded Caithness slate, featuring a stone ridge and a simple ridge kiln vent. An overshot wooden and iron water wheel is situated at the south gable. The mill was de-scheduled on 5th November 2003, and the lade has been turfed over. Further details can be found in John Hume’s The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland, volume 2, published in 1977, page 316.
Local climate
Smigel Mill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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 0.3°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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