Windmill, Duncow is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971.
Windmill, Duncow
- WRENN ID
- waning-garret-martin
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 974 837
- Coordinates
- 55.13767, -3.61086
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The remains of a late 17th or early 18th century tower windmill stand as a roofless, four-storey, battered circular shell. The structure is built of rubble with red ashlar dressings. The original south-facing door has been blocked. A door facing north was added in the mid to later 19th century, and all other openings at each level are also blocked. The original flooring has been removed. The windmill was described as ruins on the first Ordnance Survey map of 1855; the north door may have been introduced shortly afterwards during a restoration. Further information, including plans and elevations, can be found in John Hume’s Industrial Archaeology (vol 1, 1976, p102) and Scottish Windmills by Douglas, Oglethorpe & Hume (1984, p.29 and appendix).
Local climate
Windmill, Duncow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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