Meikle's Sawmill, Morningside, Innerleithen is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 1990. Wheelhouse, turbine house.
Meikle's Sawmill, Morningside, Innerleithen
- WRENN ID
- over-shingle-blackthorn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1990
- Type
- Wheelhouse, turbine house
- OS grid reference
- NT 332 365
- Coordinates
- 55.61819, -3.0615
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Meikle's Sawmill, located in Morningside, Innerleithen, dates back to the late 18th century. It features a two-bay, rectangular-plan wheelhouse with a piended roof, situated over a mill lade, along with an associated timber turbine house on the east side. The walls are constructed from whinstone rubble with rough hewn quoins, and there are segmental-arched openings for the lade and tail-race. An entrance is located on the east side, with small former gearing openings on the west side that led to now-demolished open-sided timber sawmill sheds. A remnant wall extends to the west.
The water wheel measures 14 feet in diameter and 7 feet wide, made of iron with three sets of eight T-section spokes supported by tie rods. It includes wooden buckets, pierced drum boards, and spur gearing, along with remains of a timber sluice.
The turbine house is a small shed, horizontally boarded and topped with a corrugated iron roof. It has a door on the south side and a six-pane window on the north side. Inside, there is a vertical turbine manufactured by Hogg and Robertson, which powered a 110-volt electric generator.
Local climate
Meikle's Sawmill, Morningside, Innerleithen sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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