Tower Mill, Kirkstile, Hawick is a Grade A listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 August 1977. Former mill. 4 related planning applications.
Tower Mill, Kirkstile, Hawick
- WRENN ID
- fallow-newel-snow
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1977
- Type
- Former mill
- Address
- Tower Mill, Kirkstile, Hawick, TD9 0AE
- OS grid reference
- NT 501 144
- Coordinates
- 55.42123, -2.78831
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Tower Mill in Kirkstile, Hawick, dates from around 1852 and is a three-storey former mill that has been converted for cultural and commercial use. The building features a long, splayed rectangular plan that follows the bend in the road and is carried across the Slitrig Water on a single segmental arch. It is constructed of random whinstone rubble with dressed yellow sandstone ashlar detailing, including an eaves course and long and short quoins. The mill has tabbed window margins with projecting cills, with 10 bays facing west towards Kirkstile, 6 bays to the east towards Tower Knowe, and 4 bays to the south towards Silver Street. The roof is M-profiled and piended, covered with grey slate and featuring metal ridges.
Inside, the mill has plain cast-iron columns that support timber ceiling beams. The basement contains the water wheel and boiler frontage.
Local climate
Tower Mill, Kirkstile, Hawick sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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