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Dunfermline, Limekilns Road, Hill House, Windmill
Dovecot (19th Century), Icehouse (19th Century), Windmill (17th Century)
Site Name Dunfermline, Limekilns Road, Hill House, Windmill
Classification Dovecot (19th Century), Icehouse (19th Century), Windmill (17th Century)
Canmore ID 49357
Site Number NT08NE 34.01
NGR NT 09186 85902
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49357
- Council Fife
- Parish Dunfermline
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NT08NE 34.01 09185 85902
(NT 0918 8589) Windmill (NR) (rems of)
OS 6"map, (1967)
Icehouse (NAT)
OS 6"map, (1948)
The stump of a small tower windmill, 15' high and 16' in diameter on walls 2' thick. The structure, roughly built of rubble, brick and cement, is harled and limed. It rests on a vaulted cellar built on a artifical mound. The latter is well preserved, being of sandstone and measuring 18' x 10 1/2'. The interior of this vault, which stretched into the basement of the mill, is blocked up by a stone wall. The mill itself is completely closed, the only door being bricked-up. The entrance to the vault has a 17th century chamfer and the mill is clearly of this date.
The windmill has clearly undergone considerable structural alteration since its abandonment as a mill. From its size, it either had a larger superstructure than usual, or a portion of the stone tower has been removed. The structure has probably served as a dovecot at some time, and the vault as an ice-house.
RCAHMS 1933; I L Donnachie and N Stewart 1967.
As described.
Visited by OS (J L D) 27 March 1961.
(Location cited as NT 091 859). Windmill, 17th century. Circular rubble stump of a vaulted-tower windmill.
J R Hume 1976.
Field Visit (4 April 1928)
WINDMILL (?) Less than 50 yards to the east of the house is a circular tower some 16 feet in diameter and 15 feet in height, resting on a vaulted compartment measuring internally 17 feet 10 inches by 10 feet 5 inches. The entrance has a 17th-century chamfer. A similar structure at Melville House, has been a windmill (NO31SW 2).
RCAHMS 1933, visited 4 April 1928.
