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Pumping Windmill, Gunsgreen

A Category C Listed Building in Ayton, Scottish Borders

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Latitude: 55.8666 / 55°51'59"N

Longitude: -2.0853 / 2°5'7"W

OS Eastings: 394759

OS Northings: 663716

OS Grid: NT947637

Mapcode National: GBR F0WL.BT

Mapcode Global: WH9XX.YS5Z

Plus Code: 9C7VVW87+JV

Entry Name: Pumping Windmill, Gunsgreen

Listing Name: Gunsgreenhill, Old Windmill

Listing Date: 28 September 1999

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 330187

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB5

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200330187

Location: Ayton

County: Scottish Borders

Electoral Ward: East Berwickshire

Parish: Ayton

Traditional County: Berwickshire

Tagged with: Windmill

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Description

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).

Statement of Interest

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.

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