1700–1799
Eighteenth-century windmill built
Eyemouth, Gunsgreen, Pumping Windmill originated as an eighteenth-century windmill.
Site overview
Eyemouth, Gunsgreen, Pumping Windmill stands at Gunsgreenhill near Eyemouth. The site is also known as Gunsgreenhill Tower and Old Windmill and Dovecot. It was an eighteenth-century windmill, later associated with pumping, threshing, dovecot use and farm storage.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Eyemouth, Gunsgreen, Pumping Windmill is a former windmill at Gunsgreenhill near Eyemouth in the Scottish Borders. The site was an eighteenth-century windmill and is also known as Gunsgreenhill Tower and Old Windmill and Dovecot. In 1818 it was described as a large windmill for the manufacture of flour, with a threshing machine attached.
The circular tower was later reduced and altered. It was also used as a pumping windmill and was converted for dovecot and granary use. The surviving circular stump is of rubble sandstone, with blocked openings and a pantiled roof, and has been incorporated into the farm steading.
No complete machinery inventory, ownership sequence, or precise final working date has been established from the sources checked.
Timeline
1818
Windmill advertised for flour manufacture
The windmill was described in 1818 as a large windmill for the manufacture of flour, with a threshing machine attached.
1938
Old Windmill marked on mapping
The site was marked as Old Windmill on twentieth-century Ordnance Survey mapping.
1978
Windmill photographed
The former pumping windmill tower at Gunsgreenhill was photographed in 1978.
Sources and records
Trove / Canmore place record; Scottish Windmills: An Outline and Inventory; Historic Ordnance Survey mapping; Hume industrial archaeology record