Site overview
Oxwellmains Windmill is a small former windmill tower south-west of Oxwellmains farm. Historic Environment Scotland describes it as early nineteenth century or possibly earlier, built of coursed rubble with red sandstone ashlar coping. It was built as a pumping mill for a quarry and was already marked as Windmill (Ruin of) on the 1853 Ordnance Survey map.
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History
Oxwellmains Windmill is a former wind-powered pumping mill at Oxwellmains near Dunbar in East Lothian. The surviving tower is small and tapered, built of coursed rubble with red sandstone ashlar coping. It has a low north-west entrance and a series of irregularly spaced holes above the base, probably associated with a reefing stage.
Historic Environment Scotland records that the windmill was built as a pumping mill for a quarry and that it was marked on the 1853 Ordnance Survey map as Windmill (Ruin of). Donnachie and Stewart describe the remains as a small windmill about 200 yards south-west of Oxwellmains farm, with the tower standing about 15 feet high. They considered it late eighteenth century and probably used for pumping water.
No detailed machinery description, ownership sequence, or final working date has been established from the sources checked.