Windmill, Drumgarth, Garthdee Road, Aberdeen

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 26/01/1981 Last Date Amended 22/09/2016 Local Authority Aberdeen Planning Authority Aberdeen Parish Peterculter NGR NJ 90702 02957 Coordinates 390702, 802957 — A 2-storey rubble former tower windmill with a conical roof surmounted by a finial, situated in a wooded area in the garden grounds of Drumgarth House. The windmill was reconstructed in this location around 1870-1880 and is likely to contain some mid 17th century material. There are rectangular openings at the ground and 1st floor levels and the building has an eaves course and some decorative fishscale slates on the roof. — The windmill at Drumgarth is one of only a few remaining roofed windmills in Scotland. It was rebuilt in its secluded garden site around 1870-80 from its previous city centre site and it is very likely to contain some mid 17th century fabric. There is some decorative detailing to the roof and it is designed in its present position to take advantage of views over the surrounding countryside. In its use of material from an earlier windmill, it has an important link to the industrial past of Aberdeen. Age and Rarity This windmill is situated in the gardens of Drumgarth House. Drumgarth was built in 1859 for George Jamieson, a jeweller, and is designed by the Inverness architects Alexander & William Reid and Mackenzie. Drumgarth and its windmill is situated in the Pitfodels area of Aberdeen, which was purchased and feued by the Pitfodels Land Company (established 1854). Jamieson was a partner in the company and Drumgarth was one of the first houses to be built on the former Pitfodels estate. Fiddes in his article Pitfodels and Early History of Garthdee states that Jamieson had the windmill resited in 1859 from his feu near Windmill Brae in Aberdeen city centre to Drumgarth,

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.