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Converted to dovecote
The former windmill was later converted for use as a dovecote.
Site overview
Haggerston Dovecote stands at Haggerston, near the A1 south of Berwick-upon-Tweed. The supplied coordinates correspond to Haggerston rather than Wooler. The building was first built as a windmill in the seventeenth or eighteenth century and was later converted into a dovecote.
It is described as a small vaulted tower mill of a type associated with Scotland. Later heritage discussion records the structure as a historic dovecote, while specialist mill records identify the site as a tower mill at Haggerston. The available evidence confirms the original windmill function, later dovecote conversion, and surviving tower form.
It does not provide a full milling chronology, machinery description, or final date of wind-powered use.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Haggerston Dovecote began as a wind-powered tower mill at Haggerston in Northumberland. Its form has been described as a small vaulted tower mill, a type more commonly associated with Scotland than with much of England. The building was subsequently adapted for use as a dovecote, and later records refer to it principally by that post-milling function.
Specialist mill catalogues continue to identify the structure as Tower mill, Haggerston, while local heritage material explains that the dovecote was originally built as a windmill in the seventeenth or eighteenth century. The recorded evidence therefore establishes a clear functional sequence: windmill first, dovecote later. No detailed record of its working mill machinery, millers, production history, or final operating date has been identified.
The structure survives as a converted historic tower rather than as a complete windmill.
Timeline
1600–1799
Vaulted tower mill built
The building was first built as a windmill in the seventeenth or eighteenth century.
Sources and records
Co-Curate entry: Haggerston Dovecote
Gatehouse Gazetteer entry: Haggerston Dovecote
Mills Archive catalogue entry: Tower mill, Haggerston
Windmill World Northumberland windmills gazetteer
Gatehouse Gazetteer entry: Haggerston Dovecote
Mills Archive catalogue entry: Tower mill, Haggerston
Windmill World Northumberland windmills gazetteer