1750–1825
Windmill and barn built
Barwhanny Windmill And Barn was probably built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.
Site overview
Barwhanny Windmill And Barn is a rubble-built roofless windmill with an associated two-storey barn. The windmill tower is about 25 feet high and the barn retains evidence of a drive-shaft connection between the two structures.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Barwhanny Windmill And Barn is a former windmill and associated barn near Kirkinner in Dumfries and Galloway. The windmill is probably late eighteenth century, although the date is uncertain. It survives as a roofless rubble-built tower about 25 feet high, with a square-headed doorway and some small blocked windows.
The sails and internal mill features have not survived. The adjacent barn is a large two-storey rubble-built structure with a slate roof, sandstone ridge and skews. A blocked drive-shaft hole in the barn corresponds with a similar opening in the windmill, showing that the two buildings were mechanically connected.
The site was listed on 20 July 1972. No full machinery inventory, ownership sequence, or precise final working date has been established.
Timeline
1972
Listed building designation
Barwhanny Windmill And Barn was listed on 20 July 1972.
Sources and records
Historic Environment Scotland listed building record; Trove / Canmore place record; Scottish Windmills list; historic mapping