Galmpton Former Windmill in Garden of No 13 Galmpton · Devon · England

The former windmill in the garden of No. 13, Higher Warborough Road, stands at Galmpton Warborough. It is also known in local and specialist mill records as the Galmpton Warborough windmill. The tower is a conspicuous survival on the common and is protected as a Grade II listed building.

The windmill was probably built around 1810. It was constructed from Devonian limestone rubble, with red-brick arches to the window openings. The tower is round and tapered, and its openings indicate a four-storey arrangement. The working mill had a store at ground-floor level with four floors above. The surrounding low concentric wall at the base is pierced by a doorway on the south side, opposite a doorway into the ground storey of the tower. The upper levels include opposing doorways and segmental-headed windows on the north and south sides.

The mill was working during the nineteenth century and appears in the wider group of Devon windmills recorded by local historians and industrial archaeology writers. It had stopped working by 1883, and later mill history links the end of operation to a fire. By the twentieth century the structure survived as a roofless ruin. A 1935 visit recorded the old windmill after its working life, and later accounts described the remaining tower as about 10 metres high, with an internal diameter of about 4.5 metres at the base.

The windmill was listed at Grade II on 10 January 1975 under the name Former Windmill in Garden of No 13, with the list entry amended on 18 October 1993. The tower remains roofless, but its height, masonry fabric, concentric base wall and position across the common preserve the form of an early nineteenth-century Devon tower mill.