Little Millhouse is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 September 1999. Cottage.
Little Millhouse
- WRENN ID
- last-ashlar-starling
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 September 1999
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- HY 489 025
- Coordinates
- 58.90734, -2.88727
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Little Millhouse is a later 19th century cottage that has undergone some alterations and additions. It is a single-storey, three-bay T-plan structure featuring a centrally located entrance porch with a pitched roof and boarded door, along with a lean-to addition on the outer left side. The exterior is constructed of harl-pointed rubble.
On the southeast elevation, the entrance porch has a window with a finial above it in the central bay, and there is a boarded door on the left side. Each bay has a window that hugs the eaves. To the left, in the lean-to addition, there is a boarded door set to the right, along with a flat-roofed addition on the outer left.
The cottage features fixed timber-framed windows with 4 and 9 panes. The roof is covered with stone tiles that have cement-filled joints, and there are corniced stacks made of harl-pointed rubble at each gable, topped with replacement tall cans. The property also has cast-iron rainwater goods.
Inside, the layout consists of two main rooms on either side of the porch, with a single room located at the rear. The interior includes boarded doors, flagstone floors, and an original fire surround in the principal room to the northeast.
Local climate
Little Millhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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