Alemill is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 2000. Farmhouse.
Alemill
- WRENN ID
- slow-paling-elder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 2000
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NT 913 635
- Coordinates
- 55.86524, -2.13907
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Alemill is a later 19th century house that has undergone additional alterations. It is an asymmetrical, two-storey, three-bay gabled structure with a rear wing that forms an L-shape. The building is constructed from red rubble sandstone, which is heavily pointed in parts, and features cream sandstone dressings. Key architectural details include a base course, stugged quoins, stugged long and short surrounds to stop-chamfered openings, sandstone mullions, and projecting cills.
On the southwest (entrance) elevation, there are steps leading to a centrally located timber panelled door, which is topped by a plate glass fanlight and sheltered by a sandstone-bracketed canopy. A small window is aligned above at the first floor. To the right, there is a bipartite window at ground level, and a gabled dormerhead above it breaks the eaves. The outer left side features a full-height gabled projection with bipartite windows centered at both the ground and first floors, along with a narrow opening in the gablehead.
The northwest (side) elevation consists of four bays. The gable end on the right has a single window at ground level and another at the first floor, offset to the left, with a narrow opening centered in the gablehead. To the left, there is a flush two-bay wing that includes a glazed door at ground level and a gabled dormerhead above a window that breaks the eaves, along with a single window at ground level on the outer left.
On the northeast (rear) elevation, the main block features a single window centered at the first floor. A gabled projection to the right has a single window at ground level, offset to the left of center, and another centered at the first floor. There is also a single-storey addition to the outer left that encloses a courtyard.
The southeast (side) elevation has a gable end on the left with single windows at both ground and first floors, offset to the left of center, and a narrow opening centered in the gablehead. The right side features an irregularly fenestrated range that is recessed, with a gabled dormerhead above a window that breaks the eaves, and a single-storey addition to the outer right. Coped rubble walls enclose the courtyard at the front.
The windows predominantly feature 3- and 6-pane glazing in timber sash and case style. The roof is slate with stone-coped skews and scroll-bracketed skewputts, along with corniced, brick-built apex stacks that have various cans.
The interior was not seen in 1999. The boundary walls are made of heavily-pointed, coped rough rubble and partially enclose the site, dating back to an earlier house in part.
Local climate
Alemill receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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