Northern Range, Principle Bothy, Woolmill, Knockando is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 September 2003.

Northern Range, Principle Bothy, Woolmill, Knockando

WRENN ID
shifting-sandstone-soot
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 September 2003
OS grid reference
NJ 187 425
Coordinates
57.4659, -3.35571
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Northern Range, Principal Bothy at Woolmill in Knockando is a building from the late 19th century. It features a principal byre with a later adjoining byre/store at the northwest gable, creating a long, simple rectangular layout with various lean-to additions. The earlier byre has a random rubble pedestal, while both structures are timber framed with timber cladding and have pitched corrugated-iron roofs.

On the southeast elevation of the earlier byre, there are two doors and two windows, with a central door on the northeast side. The byre/store has a larger window to the right and a central cart door on its southeast elevation. Each outer gable has a hayloft door, and there is a lean-to addition on the northwest side. A full-length continuous lean-to on the northeast side of the byre/store houses a sawmill. The doors are timber boarded, and the lower sections of the windows have slatted ventilation panels with glazed upper panels. Inside, there are remnants of animal stalls, mangers, troughs, and concrete floor slabs with drainage channels.

Local climate

Northern Range, Principle Bothy, Woolmill, Knockando sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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