1750–1799
Late eighteenth-century windmill built
Windmill Plantation, Old Windmill is recorded as a late eighteenth-century circular-plan windmill.
Site overview
Windmill Plantation, Old Windmill is a late eighteenth-century former windmill near Leswalt. Historic Environment Scotland describes it as the remains of a tapering circular-plan windmill tower built of rubble, about 12 feet high, with an internal diameter of 8 feet and walls 2 feet thick. The wooden upper part and sails have gone.
Map
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History
Windmill Plantation, Old Windmill is a former windmill near Leswalt in Dumfries and Galloway. Historic Environment Scotland records the site as the late eighteenth-century remains of a tapering circular-plan windmill tower. The surviving rubble-built structure is about 12 feet high, with an internal diameter of about 8 feet and walls about 2 feet thick.
It has a single entrance to the south-west. The wooden upper part, sails and machinery have not survived. The site was listed on 20 July 1972.
No detailed working chronology, ownership sequence, machinery description, or final operating date has been established from the sources checked.
Timeline
1972
Listed building designation
Windmill Plantation, Old Windmill was listed on 20 July 1972.
Sources and records
Historic Environment Scotland listed building record; Trove / Canmore place record