Watermill, Reawick House, Reawick is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Watermill.
Watermill, Reawick House, Reawick
- WRENN ID
- hushed-lancet-mallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1997
- Type
- Watermill
- OS grid reference
- HU 329 443
- Coordinates
- 60.18197, -1.40808
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This early 19th century watermill, located at Reawick House in Reawick, is a single-storey grain mill with a rectangular plan. The southwest gable features a vertically-boarded timber door, while the northwest elevation has a small square window with a door to the left. There is also a small square window at the northeast gablehead. On the southeast elevation, a 6-spoke, single-ring cast-iron waterwheel with a square axle is positioned to the right of centre, accompanied by two small openings that may have been used for operating the sluice.
Inside, the mill has a raised timber floor at the southern end and a cobbled floor to the north. Some walls are lined with vertically-boarded timber. The interior also contains cast-iron gearing and timber threshing machines that remain intact along the southeast wall.
Local climate
Watermill, Reawick House, Reawick sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 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 3 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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