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Windmill in grounds of Hill House
A tower windmill stood east of Hill House at Dunfermline before later alteration and reuse.
Site overview
Limekilns Road, Remains Of Windmill To East Of Hill House stands east of Hill House at Dunfermline. The structure was a tower windmill which later underwent substantial alteration after abandonment as a mill. It was also associated with later dovecot or icehouse use.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Limekilns Road, Remains Of Windmill To East Of Hill House is a former windmill structure in the grounds of Hill House at Dunfermline in Fife. The site is associated with the seventeenth-century Hill House property and survives as an altered ruin east of the house. The former windmill has clearly undergone considerable structural alteration since its abandonment as a mill, and later use as a dovecot or icehouse has been associated with the structure.
The windmill is listed separately from Hill House itself. No secure construction date, machinery description, ownership sequence, working chronology, or final windmill operating date has been established.
Timeline
1800–1899
Later reuse associated with structure
The former windmill was later associated with dovecot or icehouse use.
Sources and records
Historic Environment Scotland listed building record; Trove / Canmore place record; Windmill World site entry; Historic Ordnance Survey mapping