Crystal Well And Mule Gang, Benrig is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 August 2001. Grotto.
Crystal Well And Mule Gang, Benrig
- WRENN ID
- woven-tower-summer
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 August 2001
- Type
- Grotto
- OS grid reference
- NT 606 308
- Coordinates
- 55.56969, -2.62573
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Crystal Well and Mule Gang, dating from the early 19th century, features a round-arched grotto made with rusticated voussoirs and a carved bearded head at the keystone. Water springs from a pointed-arched recess into a gadrooned stone basin, which is set behind broken cast-iron railings topped with fleur-de-lys. Above, there are stone arches that still show remnants of a hydraulic ram, and behind this structure is a circular gin house, along with fragments of cast-iron railings.
Local climate
Crystal Well And Mule Gang, Benrig receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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