Golspie Mills, Golspie is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971.

Golspie Mills, Golspie

WRENN ID
third-outpost-root
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 March 1971
OS grid reference
NC 841 006
Coordinates
57.97981, -3.9613
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

These early 19th-century mills are a three-story, five-bay structure with a tall kiln rising the full height to the rear. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with bullfaced stone dressings and an ashlar wheel gable. The front elevation has two entrances and four windows on the ground floor, while the first and second floors feature a symmetrical five-bay fenestration. The windows have multi-pane glazing, with a blind lower section to each. The roof is slate-covered and has crowstepped gables, with two small wallhead vents on each side of the kiln, which also has a ridge ventilator. A single end stack is also present. An overshot water wheel is located on the east side, served by a nearby, largely ruined raised lade. The mills are referenced in the New Statistical Account of 1833-4 and in John Hume's The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland (1977).

Local climate

Golspie Mills, Golspie receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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