1797
Tower windmill built
High Mill Chapel Street was built in 1797 as a circular tower windmill at Carluke.
Site overview
High Mill Chapel Street was built in 1797 as a circular three-storey rubble tower windmill. The top and sails are missing, but the tower and associated mill buildings survive, including a former threshing mill, kiln, loft, machinery space, boiler house and chimney. The site represents an important surviving Scottish windmill complex.
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History
High Mill Chapel Street is a late eighteenth-century tower windmill at Carluke in South Lanarkshire. The mill was built in 1797 and survives as a tapering circular rubble tower of three storeys, although the cap and sails have gone. The site later developed into a wider milling complex, with an attached nineteenth-century range containing a former threshing mill, brick-lined kiln, loft and machinery space.
A brick chimney, boiler house and associated outbuildings reflect later adaptation of the site after wind power ceased to be the main source of operation. The mill is significant because it retains more of its historic milling complex and machinery evidence than most surviving Scottish windmills. The building was listed at Category A on 12 January 1971.
No complete ownership sequence or final wind-powered working date has been established.
Timeline
1850–1899
Milling complex adapted
The windmill complex was adapted with nineteenth-century threshing, kiln, boiler and machinery buildings after the original wind-powered phase.
1971
Listed building designation
High Mill Chapel Street was listed at Category A on 12 January 1971.
Sources and records
Historic Environment Scotland listed building record; Trove / Canmore place record; Scottish Windmills: An Outline and Inventory; local conservation and restoration information