Gunsgreenhill, Old Windmill Ayton, Scotland
Listed Building Data
Gunsgreenhill, Old Windmill has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 330187 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 5
- Canmore ID
- 60207
- Category
- C
- Name
- Gunsgreenhill, Old Windmill
- Parish
- Ayton
- County
- Scottish Borders
- Easting
- 394759
- Northing
- 663716
- Date Listed
- 28 September 1999
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Late 18th century with later alterations. Circular-plan, 2-stage, tapering stump of former tower pumping mill; roofless. Heavily-pointed sandstone rubble; sandstone dressings; red brick surrounds to later openings. Various square-headed openings including new doorway to NW (door missing); original doorway to NE (blocked). Single windows at ground to N and S. 3 equi-spaced, blocked windows at upper stage. INTERIOR: part brick, part rendered rubble. Various openings (blocked in part).
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Empty and no longer in use. Set within the grounds of Gunsgreenhill Farm and for a time, used as an out-store. According to the above survey, that which remains of the windmill is 6.4m high, with a base diameter of 8.8m. The 12-sided pantile roof recorded in the survey is no longer in place (1998). Tower mills form the largest group of windmills surviving in Scotland, and include structures of widely varying size and function, such as threshing mills, grain mills, cider mills and, as at Gunsgreenhill, pumping mills.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Blackadder's map, 1797 (marked as 'windmill'). Ordnance Survey map, 1858 (evident). G Douglas, M Oglethorpe, J Hume SCOTTISH WINDMILLS: A SURVEY (1984) p26 and p61 (survey drawing). C A Strang BORDERS AND BERWICK: AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1994) p25.
