Farmsteading And Horsemill, Elcho is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1981. Steading.
Farmsteading And Horsemill, Elcho
- WRENN ID
- empty-ember-fen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1981
- Type
- Steading
- OS grid reference
- NO 163 208
- Coordinates
- 56.37265, -3.35642
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The farmsteading and horse-mill at Elcho date from the late 18th century to the early 19th century, with later additions. It forms three sides of a quadrangle, which was covered in 1966. The structure is built from whin rubble with sandstone dressings, featuring segmentally arched cart sheds along the eastern facade. The northern wall includes an interesting round byre and a later horse-mill. An underground water wheel, measuring over 20 feet in diameter, was filled in 1966.
Local climate
Farmsteading And Horsemill, Elcho 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% 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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