1700–1899
Farm and windmill complex developed
Bankhead Farm and its associated windmill formed part of an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century farm and mill complex.
Site overview
Forfar, Bankhead Windmill is a tapering circular windmill tower associated with Bankhead Farm and Cottage. The surviving windmill tower is part of an eighteenth-century and later farm and threshing-mill complex. The structure is rubble-built and retains a damaged cantilevered stone gallery.
Map
Map markers and directions links are provided for location reference only and do not indicate public access or permission to enter a site.
No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Forfar, Bankhead Windmill is a former windmill tower at Bankhead Farm near Forfar in Angus. The windmill formed part of a large farm and mill complex that included a threshing barn, cottage and farmhouse. The surviving tower is tall and tapered, built of sandstone rubble, about 12.3 metres high and about 6 metres in diameter at the base.
A projecting course of stone slabs formed a reefing stage. The former threshing barn and associated buildings were later adapted for residential use, and the windmill tower has also been repaired and capped. The building group was listed on 11 June 1971.
No detailed windmill working chronology, machinery inventory, ownership sequence, or final working date has been established from the sources checked.
Timeline
1971
Listed building designation
Bankhead Farm and Cottage, including the windmill tower, was listed on 11 June 1971.
Sources and records
Historic Environment Scotland listed building record; Trove / Canmore place record; Regional Historic Environment Record