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Remains of a windmill, also known as Glenglassaugh or Sandend Windmill, and colloquially as the 'cup and saucer', dating to the mid 18th Century. It is a 4-storey tapered tower circular windmill, of roughly squared and coursed masonry, 7.6 m high and 9.7 m in diameter at its base. The tower is placed on a drystone rubble circular platform base, 2.75 m high and 15.7 m in diameter. This has four openings at right angles to each other, all circa 1.8 m wide. The tower proper has four rows of floor beam sockets 20 cm deep x 10 cm wide at 50 cm intervals, and each level four sockets (in pairs opposite each other) 40 cm square, 1.5 m apart. At each level in the tower there are three equi-spaced window openings and at the top of the base, which seems to have been used as a reefing stage, are three equi-spaced doors. The top course of the tower is about 40 cm deep, of dressed masonry. The door and window openings have dressed quoins, lintels and sills, while inside the openings there are red brick sides and arched heads. The windmill was built on the site of a large burial cairn, 4.26 m high by 15.24 m diameter, the cairn having been removed before 1760 when a cist with bones and a deer antler were found. Now no trace of cairn. It is possible that some of the stones from the cairn were used in the construction of the windmill. A photographic survey was carried out in 2022 prior to proposed redevelopment into residential use. A watching brief during groundworks associated with conversion of the windmill to a dwelling recorded a single posthole within the interior (see NJ56NE0340).
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