Old Mills, Old Mills Road, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Mill, ancillary buildings.

Old Mills, Old Mills Road, Elgin

WRENN ID
last-step-lark
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 January 1971
Type
Mill, ancillary buildings
OS grid reference
NJ 206 630
Coordinates
57.64996, -3.33177
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Old Mills, located on Old Mills Road in Elgin, dates from the late 18th to early 19th century, with a kiln added in the mid to later 19th century. The building is constructed from whitewashed rubble with tooled dressings. It features a wheel still in place to the west and the frame of a second wheel to the east. The roof is slated with various types of slates, including Welsh and Banffshire slates, and has a square pyramidal roofed ventilator. Additionally, there is a whitewashed rubble store and cartshed built on arches that span the mill lade, with a weather-boarded first floor and a slate roof.

Local climate

Old Mills, Old Mills Road, Elgin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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