Folkerton Mill, Rigside is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1980. 1 related planning application.
Folkerton Mill, Rigside
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-sandstone-fog
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1980
- Address
- Folkerton Mill, Rigside, ML11 9PB
- OS grid reference
- NS 857 359
- Coordinates
- 55.60333, -3.81568
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
A meal mill, still in use, dating to the early 19th century. It occupies the site of an earlier mill. The statutory address is Folkerton Mill, Rigside.
Local climate
Folkerton Mill, Rigside sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% 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 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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