1750–1825
Windmill and steading developed
The windmill at Shortrigg was built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century as part of a farm power complex.
Site overview
Shortrigg, Steading, Windmill And Horse-Gin House is a late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century farm power complex. The windmill tower is three storeys high, tapering and rubble-built, with a slated conical cap fitted in the late nineteenth century. A circular horse-gin house was added beside it in the nineteenth century.
Map
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History
Shortrigg, Steading, Windmill And Horse-Gin House is a former windmill and horse-gin complex near Hoddom in Dumfries and Galloway. The windmill was built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century as a three-storey tapering rubble tower. It was associated with farm threshing, and the adjoining circular horse-gin house was added in the nineteenth century as a second power system.
The windmill has a slated conical cap, fitted about 1883, and the horse-gin house was built between about 1860 and 1880. The site is unusual because the windmill tower, horse-gin house and steading ranges survive together as a combined agricultural power complex. No full machinery inventory, ownership sequence, or final windmill working date has been established.
Timeline
1860–1880
Horse-gin house added
A circular horse-gin house was added beside the windmill tower between about 1860 and 1880.
1883
Conical cap fitted
The windmill tower was fitted with a slated conical cap about 1883.
Sources and records
Trove / Canmore place record; Historic Environment Scotland listed building record; Scottish Windmills: An Outline and Inventory; Hume industrial archaeology record