North Mill, Southvie Water Mills, Burn Of Wiltrow, Southvoe is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 October 1977.
North Mill, Southvie Water Mills, Burn Of Wiltrow, Southvoe
- WRENN ID
- knotted-basalt-equinox
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1977
- OS grid reference
- HU 400 145
- Coordinates
- 59.91366, -1.28552
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Centre Mill, located at Southvoe Water Mills by the Burn Of Wiltrow in Southvoe, is a group of three horizontal "clack" mills dating from the later 19th century. The mills follow a standard layout of rectangular and gabled buildings that house both upper and lower sections, featuring square openings for water inlets and outlets. The walls are constructed from drystone rubble.
The west mill is roofless, with its upper house converted into a lamb house. A footbridge made from two large irregular slabs is situated next to the west mill. The centre mill is in a ruinous state, with only the partial remains of the north gable and the outlet of the lower house still visible.
The north mill has a slab footbridge leading to the west, next to a sluice gate that feeds a timber lade and a chute to the tirl in the lower house. It features a vertically-boarded timber door in the east gable and has a 'taekket' (straw thatched) roof, which is netted and weighted with linkstanes.
Local climate
North Mill, Southvie Water Mills, Burn Of Wiltrow, Southvoe sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% 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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