Norse Mill, Westing, Unst is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 August 1971. Mill.
Norse Mill, Westing, Unst
- WRENN ID
- carved-attic-ridge
- 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
- HP 571 056
- Coordinates
- 60.73016, -0.95351
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Norse Mill in Westing, Unst, is a later 19th-century horizontal mill built in the traditional rectangular gabled style using drystone rubble. It features upper and lower houses with square openings for the inlet and outlet, which are offset to the north of the centerline of the east and west elevations, respectively. The south gable has a vertically-boarded timber entrance door that is centered, while the north gablehead includes a centrally placed 2-pane timber fixed-light window. The timber roof structure is currently (as of 1997) covered with corrugated sheeting and topped with turf.
Inside, there is a timber shute within the inlet that feeds into the tirl in the lower house. The upper house contains a millstone that remains in-situ, with a horizontally-boarded timber hopper suspended above it.
Local climate
Norse Mill, Westing, Unst sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 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 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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