Mill Of Bellabeg is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Mill.
Mill Of Bellabeg
- WRENN ID
- old-clay-tallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Mill
- OS grid reference
- NJ 353 131
- Coordinates
- 57.20481, -3.07222
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Mill of Bellabeg is a substantial single-storey water mill built in the mid-18th century. It became disused by 1903 and was converted into a joiners shop in 1911. The mill is located close to the centre of Bellabeg Village and features an L-plan layout with three bays. The building has piend and ball-finialled gabled roofs, and it retains its stone forestair, mill wheel, and some gearing. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble with large squared rubble pink granite quoins.
The entrance elevation is symmetrical, facing east, with the wheel located to the south and a gabled bay with a forestair to the north. The timber windows have a multi-pane glazing pattern, and the roof is covered with graded grey slates and features a stone ridge. An ashlar stack with a polygonal can, along with ashlar-coped skews and square skewputts, adds to the architectural detail.
Local climate
Mill Of Bellabeg sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 90 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 67 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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