Town Mill, Stonehouse Road, Strathaven is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 November 1980. Mill.

Town Mill, Stonehouse Road, Strathaven

WRENN ID
long-vault-bone
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
East Kilbride and Strathaven MP: Joani Reid (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 November 1980
Type
Mill
OS grid reference
NS 704 444
Coordinates
55.67641, -4.06209
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Town Mill, located on Stonehouse Road in Strathaven, was built in 1831, extended in 1877, and remodelled in 1935. It consists of two rectangular mills constructed from rubble, with ashlar dressings, positioned at right angles to each other on a steep slope.

The elevation facing Stonehouse Road features a single-storey, three-bay building on the left, which is actually the fourth floor of the mill block. To the right is a two-storey, three-bay house that formerly served as offices and a board room. This house has a central door with a cornice that is recessed, and the ground floor has double windows, although all the window openings have been altered. The two buildings are connected by a frontispiece added in 1935, which includes a tall pend, a millstone above, and an inscription reading "The town mill." The facade has a shallow segmentally raised parapet.

The rear elevation of the building rises to three and four storeys, with the structure to the northeast featuring lying-pane glazing. The mill building to the east has two and three storeys and includes a modern exterior stair on the northeast elevation, also with lying-pane glazing. The southwest elevation has a round-arched door in the advanced southern section, which is accessed by a gangway, along with a gabled loft entrance above. The entire complex is topped with slate roofs. Inside, the board room features a panelled interior.

Local climate

Town Mill, Stonehouse Road, Strathaven sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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