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Hilton Farm, Windmill
Threshing Mill (Post Medieval), Windmill (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Hilton Farm, Windmill
Classification Threshing Mill (Post Medieval), Windmill (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 20525
Site Number NJ93SW 21.01
NGR NJ 94171 34050
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20525
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Ellon
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Hilton of Turnerhall, c.1800. A remarkably tall, narrow farmhouse in coursed granite on three floors and with three
windows set on a ridge. Sashes original; tall, single-storey back wing; adjacent to Hilton Windmill, (?)1787 or 1825. Lower part octagonal, 30ft high, top 20ft circular and tapering. Rubble-built in pinkish granite and with dressed quoins and a slab walkway reefing-stage carried on granite corbel-spurs at the angles. Originally four floors to spiral stair.
The barn is two storeys high, the lower storey being below the level of the base of the tower.
The sails were blown off on 28 December 1879 in the same storm which did for the Tay Bridge; this led to the capping of the windmill and the installation of a three-horse gin in front of the tower to power the adjacent threshing barn. (This
itself was replaced by a stationary engine in the base of the tower which caused a fire which destroyed the original timber-work and fittings of the windmill.)
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NJ93SW 21.01 94171 34050
Windmill (disused) [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1989.
Early 19th century tower threshing mill.
I L Donnachie and N K Stewart 1967; G Douglas, M Oglethorpe and J R Hume 1984.
(Location cited as NJ 942 342). Windmill, Hilton, early 19th century. A most interesting structure, with an octagonal base terminating in a narrow bracketted walk-way and extended upwards in circular cross-section. There is now a conical roof. Appears to have powered a threshing mill.
J R Hume 1977.
Air photographs: AAS/97/13/G29/11-13 and AAS/97/13/CT.
NMRS, MS/712/29.
