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Tower survives
The whitewashed circular rubble-stone tower survives with battered walls, door openings, a non-conical roof, floored interior, and a heavy internal beam.
Site overview
The Windmill Tower at Windmill Farm stands prominently on a seaward ridge above Dale Roads, just south-south-east of Windmill Farm and about half a kilometre north of Dale. It is an early nineteenth-century or later eighteenth-century windmill tower built for the Dale Castle estate. The tower was marked on the 1847 tithe map.
It is a circular whitewashed rubble-stone tower with battered walls, a north-north-eastern doorway, a blocked southern doorway, and a small upper opening. The roof is not a conical cap but has curved hipped ends with a short ridge and eroded metal-sheet cladding over timber. The interior is floored and retains a heavy beam.
The tower was listed at Grade II in 1997 as a very rare Pembrokeshire example of a circular windmill tower.
Map
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History
The Windmill Tower at Windmill Farm stands on a prominent seaward ridge above Dale Roads, just south-south-east of Windmill Farm and about half a kilometre north of Dale. Its position gives the tower strong landmark value in the coastal landscape around Dale.
The windmill was built in the later eighteenth or early nineteenth century for the Dale Castle estate. It was marked on the 1847 tithe map, confirming its presence within the nineteenth-century estate landscape. The surviving structure is a circular windmill tower built of whitewashed rubble stone, with walls battered inwards. The building retains a north-north-eastern doorway with a slab lintel, a blocked doorway to the south, and a small square upper opening to the west-north-west.
The roof is not a traditional conical windmill cap. It has curved hipped ends and a short ridge, with eroded metal-sheet cladding over timber. Internally the tower is floored, with blocked windows or wall recesses at first-floor level on the north-west and north-east sides and one heavy beam across the interior.
The tower was listed at Grade II on 10 December 1997. Its special interest lies in its rarity as a regional example of a circular windmill tower, a building type scarcely used in Pembrokeshire. The listed tower preserves the visible form of a former estate windmill and remains a prominent feature of the coastal ridge above Dale Roads.
Timeline
1775–1825
Windmill tower built
The windmill tower was built in the later eighteenth or early nineteenth century for the Dale Castle estate.
1847
Tower marked on tithe map
The windmill tower was marked on the 1847 tithe map.
1997
Listed building designation
The Windmill Tower at Windmill Farm was designated as a Grade II listed building.
Sources and records
Cadw listed building record
British Listed Buildings entry
Welsh Mills Society listed windmills gazetteer
Wikidata heritage record
British Listed Buildings entry
Welsh Mills Society listed windmills gazetteer
Wikidata heritage record