1750–1825
Tower mill built
Mitchelston Farm, Former Tower Mill was built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.
Site overview
Mitchelston Farm, Former Tower Mill was a late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century tower mill associated with Mitchelston Farm. The tower stood behind the west range of ancillary farm buildings and was about 45 feet high. It no longer survives as a standing windmill tower.
Map
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History
Mitchelston Farm, Former Tower Mill was a former windmill at Mitchelston Farm, about two miles north of Stow in the Scottish Borders. The mill was a large rubble-built tower mill of late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century date. It stood behind the west range of ancillary farm buildings and was about 45 feet high, with a ground diameter of about 12 feet.
The tower was later taken down, leaving the listed farm complex without its former windmill. No detailed machinery description, ownership sequence, working chronology, or final windmill operating date has been established from the sources checked.
Timeline
1967
Tower mill remains recorded
The remains of a large tower mill adjoining Mitchelston Farm were recorded in the 1960s.
1971
Listed building designation
Mitchelston Farm, including ancillary buildings and garden walls associated with the former mill site, was listed on 22 January 1971.
Sources and records
Historic Environment Scotland listed building record; Scottish Windmills: An Outline and Inventory; Windmill World site entry