Site overview

South Ronaldsay, Kirkhouse Point, Windmill is recorded by Trove and Canmore as a windmill at Kirkhouse Point, South Ronaldsay. The record also gives the alternative name Old Windmill, Kirkhouse Point. The surviving structure is described as the solid conical stone base of a post mill of eighteenth-century date.

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History

South Ronaldsay, Kirkhouse Point, Windmill is a former windmill site at Kirkhouse Point on South Ronaldsay in Orkney. Trove and Canmore record the site under this name and also give Old Windmill, Kirkhouse Point as an alternative name. The site is classified as a windmill and is described as the solid conical stone base of a post mill.

Hume identified the site as an eighteenth-century old windmill. Later survey work recorded the circular windmill stump as part of a threatened buildings survey in 2006. No detailed working chronology, ownership sequence, machinery description, or final working date has been established from the sources checked.

Timeline

1700–1799

Eighteenth-century windmill recorded

The Kirkhouse Point windmill is recorded as an eighteenth-century windmill, represented by the solid conical stone base of a post mill.
2006

Windmill stump surveyed

The circular windmill stump at Kirkhouse Point was recorded by the Threatened Buildings Survey on 27 September 2006.

Sources and records

Trove / Canmore place record; Hume industrial archaeology reference; RCAHMS survey record