1600–1699
Seventeenth-century windmill built
Duncow, Windmill was built as a windmill in the seventeenth century.
Site overview
Duncow, Windmill stands near Castlehill Farm in the parish of Kirkmahoe. It is a former seventeenth-century windmill and survives as a stone tower. The windmill was already ruinous by the mid-nineteenth century.
Map
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History
Duncow, Windmill is a former windmill near Duncow in the parish of Kirkmahoe, Dumfries and Galloway. It is also associated with Castlehill Farm and is listed as Castlehill Farm Former Windmill. The site is identified as a seventeenth-century windmill.
The tower survived as a local landmark after the mill had ceased to work and was already ruinous by the mid-nineteenth century. The surviving structure is a listed building. No complete machinery description, ownership sequence, or precise final working date has been established.
Timeline
1855
Windmill ruin recorded
Duncow, Windmill was ruinous by 1855.
1971
Listed building designation
Castlehill Farm Former Windmill was listed on 3 August 1971.
Sources and records
Trove / Canmore place record; Historic Environment Scotland listed building record; Scottish Windmills list; Historic Ordnance Survey mapping