1750–1825
Windmill stump built
Montbletton Farm, Windmill Stump was built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.
Site overview
Montbletton Farm, Windmill Stump is a former windmill structure at Montbletton. It has a tall, slightly battered square rubble base surmounted by a tapering cylindrical rubble windmill tower. The structure is gutted and dates from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.
Map
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History
Montbletton Farm, Windmill Stump is a former windmill at Montbletton in the parish of Gamrie, Aberdeenshire. The structure has a tall, slightly battered square rubble base with a tapering cylindrical rubble windmill tower above it. The windmill tower is also slightly battered and has tooled ashlar wallhead copes.
A long, narrow round-headed opening survives in the north elevation, and a similar blocked opening formerly gave access to the wallhead of the square base. Iron rings and bolts survive around the base of the tower. The interior is gutted.
The windmill dates from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. No detailed working chronology, machinery description, ownership sequence, or final working date has been established from the sources checked.
Timeline
1978
Measured survey carried out
A measured survey of Montbletton Windmill was carried out in 1978.
Sources and records
Historic Environment Scotland listed building record; Trove / Canmore place record; Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record; Scottish Windmills list