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This structure stands almost 12 metres tall.

A plaque mounted about 3 metres above ground level on its south-western side identifies it as the product of "W. Dickie & Sons, Victoria Works, East Kilbride". This company, founded by William W. Dickie, produced a variety of farming equipment, but it was particularly known for the windpumps that it manufactured from the 1890s to the 1960s. The Dickie windpumps were once a familiar sight across the Scottish landscape.

For a closer look at some details, see NS4884 : Old windpump (detail from top) and NS4884 : Old windpump (detail from base). For a view of the field in which it stands, see NS4884 : Field at Aucheneck.

For a very similar example from Ayrshire, see NS5541 : Windpump at Laigh Hapton. See also NS6055 : Dickie Windpump.

Serving as a useful indicator of the direction of view, the peak that is visible directly behind the windpump is the top of Ben Lomond (NN3602).