High Mill, Chapel Street, Carluke is a Grade A listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. 1 related planning application.
High Mill, Chapel Street, Carluke
- WRENN ID
- still-footing-laurel
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke MP: Pamela Nash (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 849 507
- Coordinates
- 55.73668, -3.83412
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
High Mill is a tower mill dating to 1797, located on Chapel Street, Carluke. It is the most complete windmill in Scotland. The original structure is a tapering three-story circular tower built of rubble. The upper sails and top sections are now missing. Attached to the tower is a two-story range constructed in the mid-19th century, also of squared rubble. This range housed a former threshing mill in its eastern portion, and a brick-lined kiln and loft in the west, with machinery located below the loft. To the northeast stands a square brick chimney accompanied by a boiler house and outbuildings, some of which are now in ruins.
The tower mill retains some of its original mill works, including shutes, hoppers, and millstones. Machinery within the lower levels includes a condenser from a steam engine manufactured by Easton and Anderson of London, along with most of a Tangye gas engine. In 1982, the interior workings of the tower were found to be in a state of collapse. The mill was initially powered by wind for approximately 50 years before being converted to steam, remaining in operation until the 1930s.
Local climate
High Mill, Chapel Street, Carluke sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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