City Corn Mills, Wards Road, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 August 1999. Mill. 2 related planning applications.
City Corn Mills, Wards Road, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- upper-hearth-spindle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 August 1999
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- City Corn Mills, Wards Road, Elgin, IV30 1NL
- OS grid reference
- NJ 214 621
- Coordinates
- 57.64271, -3.31819
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
City Corn Mills, located on Wards Road in Elgin, is a former corn mill built around 1912, likely by C C Doig. This two-storey and attic building has an L-shaped plan and features a pagoda kiln with a pyramidal roof. There are 20th-century additions that are not considered of merit or interest. The structure is made of tooled sandstone rubble, with polished dressings at the margins, and it has long and short quoins.
The south elevation is asymmetrical, with the kiln positioned in the left bay. There is an infilled opening at the ground floor and a small opening at the attic floor, alongside a harled 20th-century lean-to addition on the outer left. The ground floor has regular fenestration with two flanking bays to the right, and three gabled bays on the outer right. A boarded timber door is flanked by windows on both the ground and first floors, with two symmetrically placed windows in the gablehead of the attic floor. The attic also features two 2-pane skylights.
The east elevation is mainly obscured by a brick lean-to addition on the left and a flat-roofed three-storey harled concrete addition on the right. The north elevation is predominantly hidden by harled additions. The west elevation has a harled lean-to addition that obscures the ground and first floors, along with an infilled opening below the eaves at the attic floor.
The building has predominantly timber sash and case windows, with some infilled openings. The roof is covered with grey slate and has lead ridges, while the kiln ventilator features an elongated pyramidal roof with two lead louvres and a lead pyramidal cap.
Inside, the mill has been gutted, and there are no remaining features related to its original use.
Local climate
City Corn Mills, Wards 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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