Lime Kiln Fields Mill Bolsover · Derbyshire · England

Lime Kiln Fields Mill stands at Old Bolsover, on Mill Walk, and is the principal surviving windmill structure at the site. The mill was built in 1793 as a tower windmill. Its tower is circular in plan, strongly tapered, and built of coursed squared limestone with sandstone dressings and a red brick cornice. The four-storey structure has rows of rectangular openings beneath plain lintels, giving the surviving shell a regular industrial form.

The mill worked as a wind-powered corn mill. Later evidence shows that it was adapted to steam power, a change represented by the separate brick chimney beside the tower. That chimney is a late nineteenth-century square red-brick structure, tapering to a raised brick band and stepped brick top. Its survival beside the tower records the later powered phase of the mill after the original wind-driven arrangement had changed.

By the later life of the mill, the cap, sails and shaft had gone. Derbyshire mill summaries record the mill as probably little used after 1895, while the listed tower is described as derelict but still preserving much of its machinery. The tower and chimney were both listed at Grade II on 13 August 1987. The windmill listing was later subject to a minor amendment on 13 October 2023, updating the list entry name and address.

The surviving fabric presents an unusually clear pairing of a late eighteenth-century limestone tower mill and its later steam-power chimney. Within Old Bolsover the site remains a compact but important industrial landmark, preserving both the original wind-powered form and a later phase of mechanised milling.