1690–1825
Windmill stump built
Northfield Farm, Windmill Stump was built between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth century.
Site overview
Northfield Farm, Windmill Stump stands within a farmstead at Northfield. It has a square rubble base surmounted by a cylindrical tapering harled windmill tower. The structure is gutted and is associated with an earlier farm building range.
Map
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History
Northfield Farm, Windmill Stump is a former windmill at Northfield in the parish of Gamrie, Aberdeenshire. The surviving structure has a square, slightly battered rubble base surmounted by a cylindrical tapering harled windmill tower. A single-storey rubble lean-to fronts the base of the tower.
The arched interior contains two narrow round-headed openings leading to the square wallhead, and the structure is gutted. Local records describe the windmill as part of a farm building range and note that the tower was originally capped by a conical roof. The windmill is generally dated to the late seventeenth, early eighteenth or early nineteenth century in different records, so a precise construction date has not been established.
No detailed working chronology, machinery description, ownership sequence, or final working date has been established from the sources checked.
Timeline
1798
Northfield Mill recorded
Northfield Mill is recorded as a windmill site in 1798.
Sources and records
Historic Environment Scotland listed building record; Trove / Canmore place record; Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record; Windmill World site entry; Scottish Windmills list