West Mill, Forss is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. Mill.
West Mill, Forss
- WRENN ID
- mired-rampart-rain
- Grade
- B
- 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 036 686
- Coordinates
- 58.59536, -3.65952
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Mill in Forss is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey mill built into the side of a north-facing bank. The south front is made of rubble and features an irregular wide, single-storey design with two bays. The entrance is located on the right, and there is a single loft door that breaks the wallhead on the left.
On the east gable, there is a skeletal iron overshot wheel. At the west gable, there is a three-bay byre range with a curved front that follows the slope of the land, topped with a corrugated asbestos roof.
Local climate
West Mill, Forss sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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