East Mill, Forss

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 21/05/1974 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Thurso NGR ND 03684 68702 Coordinates 303684, 968702 — Early 19th century mill range with early/mid 19th century miller's house abutting SE gable of mill, all on SW sloping site fronting Forss Water. Mill; 3-storey, 6-bay SW front with 2-storey addition to NW gable projecting ar rear. Harl pointed rubble. Off-centre door; reasonably regular fenestration, with some windows blocked. Shuttering or 12-pane glazing; piended Caithness slate roof. Mill lade runs close in front of building serving overshot wheel at west end of mill. Miller's house; set back from SE gable of mill with entrance in small porch in re-entrant; 2-storey, asymmetrical 3 bays; thin rubble flagstone, with polished flagstone dressings and margins. Slightly advanced gable right bay with single ground floor centre window, 2 1st floor windows and apex stack. 2 further 1st floor windows break eaves in gabletted dormers. Single storey extension at right gable with loft door in gable centre (at ground floor level owing to slope of site) and rear wall of large single stone slabs. Ridge stack; Caithness slate roof. — Miller's House has served as Post Office and 1 ground floor window fitted with small posting box. For mill on west bank of Forss Water at Forss, see Reay Parish.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.