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Tower adapted with nesting boxes
The former windmill tower was later fitted with stone nesting boxes, indicating dovecot use.
Site overview
North Callange Windmill stood beside North Callange farm. It was a small tower windmill, probably built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. The surviving remains were later associated with dovecot use.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
North Callange Windmill was a former small tower windmill beside North Callange farm. The structure was built of rubble and sandstone and probably dates from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. The circular tower was later fitted with stone nesting boxes, indicating conversion or adaptation for dovecot use after the windmill phase had ended.
No detailed machinery description, ownership sequence, working chronology, or final windmill operating date has been established.
Timeline
1750–1825
Small tower windmill built
North Callange Windmill was probably built as a small tower windmill in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.
Sources and records
Trove / Canmore place record; Scottish Windmills: An Outline and Inventory; Windmill World site entry