1675–1725
Vaulted tower windmill built
Dunbarney House Windmill was probably built in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.
Site overview
Dunbarney House Windmill is an early eighteenth-century or possibly late seventeenth-century tower windmill. The circular rubble-built tower is gutted and includes a large segmental archway in the substructure with a sunken cart access.
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History
Dunbarney House Windmill is a former vaulted tower windmill south-west of Dunbarney House near Bridge of Earn in Perth and Kinross. The windmill probably dates from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century and is a representative Scottish vaulted tower mill. The circular rubble-built tower survives as a gutted structure with a large segmental archway in the substructure and a sunken driveway or cart access.
The windmill was ruinous by 1840. It was listed on 5 October 1971 and was formerly also scheduled, with the scheduled monument designation later removed because of dual designation. No complete machinery description, ownership sequence, or precise final windmill operating date has been established.
Timeline
1840
Windmill ruin recorded
Dunbarney House Windmill was ruinous by 1840.
1971
Listed building designation
Dunbarney House Windmill was listed on 5 October 1971.
1974
Scheduled monument designation
Dunbarney House, windmill SW of was scheduled on 13 August 1974.
2016
Scheduled monument designation removed
The scheduled monument designation was removed on 14 July 2016 because the structure was already protected as a listed building.
Sources and records
Historic Environment Scotland listed building record; Historic Environment Scotland scheduled monument record; Trove / Canmore place record; Society of Antiquaries of Scotland article; Scottish Windmills: An Outline and Inventory