Sheep Stell, Hirendean Hill is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 November 1998. Sheep stell.
Sheep Stell, Hirendean Hill
- WRENN ID
- tired-spindle-ridge
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1998
- Type
- Sheep stell
- OS grid reference
- NT 297 512
- Coordinates
- 55.74947, -3.12046
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sheep Stell, located on Hirendean Hill, is an early 20th-century circular sheep shelter built from coursed brick. It features a semi-circular cast concrete coping. Adjacent to the southeast opening is a small rectangular brick building that has a boarded timber door on its southeast elevation. To the right of the door, there is an advanced section of the wall, and above it, a boarded timber opening is set in the gable head. Additionally, there is a window located in the gable head of the northwest elevation. The structure is topped with a corrugated iron roof.
Local climate
Sheep Stell, Hirendean Hill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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