3 Newmill Cottage, Newmill, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. 1 related planning application.
3 Newmill Cottage, Newmill, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- final-mantel-mallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1981
- OS grid reference
- NJ 225 631
- Coordinates
- 57.65177, -3.3002
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 Newmill Cottage in Newmill, Elgin, is a building that dates from the mid to late 19th century, although it has an earlier core. It features an L-plan layout with a single storey and an attic, having been converted from a stable and carriage range. The long symmetrical elevation consists of bays arranged in the pattern of 2,1,2,2,1,2, with single bays that are gabled. The remaining bays include gabled wellhead dormers. The return elevations have a door set in a moulded architrave and display irregular fenestration. Access to the cottage is through a pointed-arched pend that has a dovecot above, leading into a paved and cobbled court. The exterior is harled with stone margins, has coped stacks, and is topped with a slate roof.
Local climate
3 Newmill Cottage, Newmill, Elgin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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