Trenabie Bere Mill, Pierowall, Westray is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971.
Trenabie Bere Mill, Pierowall, Westray
- WRENN ID
- sacred-rubblework-brook
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- OS grid reference
- HY 438 479
- Coordinates
- 59.31428, -2.98813
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Trenabie Mill and Lade, located in Pierowall, Westray, is likely from the early 18th century, with a crude datestone dated 1722. The building was restored in 1999 and is a single-storey structure, originally with a loft, designed as a bere mill. It features crow-stepped gables and an intact breast-shot waterwheel, constructed from coursed rubble.
On the north elevation, there is a narrow entrance on the outer left, which likely originally led to a gear cupboard around or over the pit wheel, with a loft window above it. To the right of the centre is an entrance with boarded timber, and a window that was formerly an entrance is located to the right. The stone masonry to the left is roughly inscribed with 'T S 1722'.
The south elevation has an entrance to the left of centre and a small boarded window on the outer right.
On the east elevation, there is a cast-iron 8-spoke breast-shot waterwheel positioned parallel to the gable end on the left side. Above it, there is a small window to the left and a smaller opening to the right. The base of a finial is visible at the gable.
The west elevation features a small window on the right at ground floor level and a loft window centred above it in the gable, which has a ball finial.
The mill has fixed single and two-pane windows, and the roof is covered with stone slates, including some rooflights.
Inside, the cast-iron bevel pit-wheel remains intact, and most windows have splayed reveals.
Local climate
Trenabie Bere Mill, Pierowall, Westray sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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