2 Mill Cottages, Mill Road, Portree, Skye is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982.
2 Mill Cottages, Mill Road, Portree, Skye
- WRENN ID
- frozen-wattle-equinox
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 September 1982
- OS grid reference
- NG 485 438
- Coordinates
- 57.41478, -6.18979
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1 Mill Cottages on Mill Road in Portree, Skye, date back to the early 19th century. They are a single-storey, rectangular-plan pair of three-bay cottages that were originally built for mill workers. The exterior is made of rubble, harled, and painted, featuring three piended dormers.
The cottages predominantly have 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are coped end and ridge stacks, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.
Adjacent to the cottages is a former cloth manufacturing mill designed by James Gillespie Graham in 1804. This two-storey, L-plan, gabled building is situated on steeply sloping ground to the east. It is constructed of snecked rubble and has been remodelled internally to create residential accommodation, with some later openings added. The mill features timber windows and a grey slate roof.
Local climate
2 Mill Cottages, Mill Road, Portree, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,970 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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