Norse Mill, Vementry is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 August 1971. Mill.
Norse Mill, Vementry
- WRENN ID
- half-crypt-grain
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1971
- Type
- Mill
- OS grid reference
- HU 312 597
- Coordinates
- 60.32028, -1.4369
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Norse Mill in Vementry is a horizontal mill built in the later 19th century, located by a stream from Hostigates Loch. It follows the standard design of having an upper house and a lower house, with the millstone situated in the upper house and the tirl in the lower house. The walls are made of red granite rubble. The gables are on the east and west sides, featuring a vertically-boarded timber door in the west gable. There is an inlet to the upper house on the left side of the north elevation and an outlet from the lower house on the right side of the south elevation.
Local climate
Norse Mill, Vementry sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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