Barn, Farmsteading, Clarabad is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 2001.

Barn, Farmsteading, Clarabad

WRENN ID
third-brass-crag
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 March 2001
OS grid reference
NT 926 541
Coordinates
55.78082, -2.11911
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Horse Mill at Clarabad is likely from the early 19th century, with some later additions and alterations. It is a single-storey, octagonal-plan former horse mill that is attached to a two-storey, rectangular-plan barn to the east. The building is mainly constructed from tooled cream sandstone rubble, featuring tooled dressings.

The horse mill has a large, square-headed opening on the south side, while the barn is located to the east. The roof is covered with grey slate. Inside, the walls are made of rubble, and there is a boarded timber partition to the east that encloses a later engine room, which contains a fixed engine, a workbench, and tools that remain in place. The roof structure is open timber, and the slates are overlapping grey.

On the west elevation of the barn, there is a two-leaf boarded loft door that breaks the eaves at the center, along with an arched projection at the ground level. The horse mill is located to the outer left. The south elevation features a gable end with a single window centered at the first floor. The east elevation has a boarded timber door centered at the ground level, with a boarded opening above it and single windows flanking at ground level. There is a later addition that projects to the outer right, and part-ventilated windows are present on the east side. The roof remains grey slate with stone-coped skews. The interior was not seen in 1999.

Local climate

Barn, Farmsteading, Clarabad receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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