Pumping Windmill, Gunsgreen

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 28/09/1999 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish Ayton NGR NT 94759 63716 Coordinates 394759, 663716 — 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). — 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.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.