Mill House, Nisbet Hill is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Mill house. 1 related planning application.

Mill House, Nisbet Hill

WRENN ID
under-stone-owl
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 March 1997
Type
Mill house
Address
Mill House, Nisbet Hill, TD11 3HU
OS grid reference
NT 798 503
Coordinates
55.74644, -2.32295
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Mill House, located at Nisbet Hill, is a mid-19th century building that has undergone later alterations and additions. It is a single-storey house with an attic, featuring a rectangular plan and three bays, along with later single-storey additions at the rear. The exterior is constructed of stugged ashlar with droved ashlar dressings, and the side and rear elevations are made of harl-pointed whinstone and sandstone rubble. The modern additions have harled platform roofs, and the building includes a base course and an eaves course.

On the southeast elevation, there is an advanced bay in the center with polished ashlar, featuring a simple porch and an ashlar lean-to above the gable. A bipartite Tudor-arched window is located at the gablehead, with a heraldic emblem above it. Each flanking bay has a window with an ashlar canopy above.

The northwest elevation has a truncated window at the first floor. There are single-storey additions at ground level from 1978 and 1981, with the left addition projecting northeast beyond the line of the house.

Both the southwest and northeast elevations feature crowstepped gables. The building has six-pane timber casement windows, a traceried window in the center, and a variety of windows at the rear. The roof is covered with graded slate and has harled wallhead stacks on each side elevation gable. Modern box dormers are present in the flanking bays on the southeast and to the left of the northwest elevation. The crowstepped gables are topped with droved ashlar coping.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1996.

Additionally, there is a bridge over a lade that formerly led to the mill, located to the southeast of the house. This bridge is made of rubble and features a skew that creates a tunnel-like effect.

Local climate

Mill House, Nisbet Hill receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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