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Field Visit
Date 20 March 1953
Event ID 1108751
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1108751
Windmill, Myrehead.
Near the NW. corner of the farm-buildings at Myrehead, some 650 yds. NW. of Manuel Station, and partly encroached on by them, there stands the empty shell of a windmill (1). It is roughly built of rubble, with large freestone quoins at the doors, and is circular on plan, measuring about 19 ft. in diameter at ground level over a wall 3 ft. thick, but contracts markedly above the second floor (Pl. 205 A). The height is estimated to be about 40 ft. The top is open and the interior has been gutted, but the arrangement of doors and joist-holes shows that there were originally three floors in all in the lower part of the tower. At ground level, in the W. arc, there is a door, now blocked to half its height, with a massive lintel and a relieving arch; on the N. and the SE. respectively a small window and a door have been broken out. On the first floor the inside of a blocked door, clearly original, can be seen on the S., the exterior of which is obscured by the abutting farm buildings. On the second floor, in the W. arc, there is a door with a relieving arch but no lintel; the lower edge of this opening, from which the threshold seems likewise to have been removed, is some 8 ft. directly above the lintel of the ground-floor entrance. A ring of putlog holes runs round the exterior at this level. The appearance of the quoins would agree with a date in the late 18th or early 19th century.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 20 March 1953
(1) Notes in P.S.A.S., lxxix (1944-5), 12. This same article
explains the mechanism of these mills.
