1700–1799
Eighteenth-century windmill built
Stoneykirk, Windmill was built in the eighteenth century and survives as a short tapering rubble tower.
Site overview
Stoneykirk, Windmill stands near Low Culgroat and Windmill Plantation. The surviving structure is a short tapering rubble tower and is probably the base of a turret post mill. It is listed as Windmill Plantation, Old Windmill.
Map
Map markers and directions links are provided for location reference only and do not indicate public access or permission to enter a site.
No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Stoneykirk, Windmill is a former windmill near Stoneykirk in Wigtownshire. It is also known as Low Culgroat and Windmill Plantation. The structure is an eighteenth-century windmill and survives as a short tapering rubble tower.
It has been interpreted as the base of a turret post mill, a form in which the milling body or superstructure was carried above a masonry base. The site is listed as Windmill Plantation, Old Windmill. No detailed machinery description, ownership sequence, working chronology, or precise final working date has been established.
Timeline
1972
Listed building designation
Windmill Plantation, Old Windmill was listed on 20 July 1972.
1974
Windmill photographed
Stoneykirk, Windmill was photographed from the south-south-west showing the doorway.
Sources and records
Trove / Canmore place record; Historic Environment Scotland listed building record; Hume industrial archaeology record; Scottish Windmills list