Description

Late 18th century with later alterations. Circular-plan, 2-stage, tapering stump of former tower pumping mill; roofless. Heavily-pointed sandstone rubble; sandstone dressings; red brick surrounds to later openings. Various square-headed openings including new doorway to NW (door missing); original doorway to NE (blocked). Single windows at ground to N and S. 3 equi-spaced, blocked windows at upper stage.

INTERIOR: part brick, part rendered rubble. Various openings (blocked in part).

Statement of Interest

Empty and no longer in use. Set within the grounds of Gunsgreenhill Farm and for a time, used as an out-store. According to the above survey, that which remains of the windmill is 6.4m high, with a base diameter of 8.8m. The 12-sided pantile roof recorded in the survey is no longer in place (1998). Tower mills form the largest group of windmills surviving in Scotland, and include structures of widely varying size and function, such as threshing mills, grain mills, cider mills and, as at Gunsgreenhill, pumping mills.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56606100

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings