Oakbank Mill, Blairgowrie is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Mill. 2 related planning applications.

Oakbank Mill, Blairgowrie

WRENN ID
crumbling-rampart-kestrel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
Type
Mill
Address
Oakbank Mill, Blairgowrie, PH10 6TB
OS grid reference
NO 176 462
Coordinates
56.60047, -3.34224
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Oakbank Mill is a three-storey and basement mill building situated on a steeply sloping site. It is constructed from rubble and features a peind roofed wheel house at the basement level, which houses a waterwheel approximately 18 feet in diameter and 10 feet wide. The mill has circumference gearing and a cast iron transmission shaft with gearing that rises externally up the face of the main building. There is also a rock-cut tail race associated with the mill.

Local climate

Oakbank Mill, Blairgowrie sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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