Windmill, Hill House, Limekilns Road, Dunfermline is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. Windmill.

Windmill, Hill House, Limekilns Road, Dunfermline

WRENN ID
pale-rotunda-yew
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1971
Type
Windmill
OS grid reference
NT 091 859
Coordinates
56.05731, -3.45987
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This 17th-century building is a circular sandstone rubble stump of a tower windmill, featuring a barrel vaulted chamber below. The tower stands 4 meters high and has a diameter of 4.7 meters, with a cap track for moving parts visible above. The entrance has chamfered jambs and leads to a roughly coursed sandstone outer wall to the north of the chamber, flanked by swept rubble wings. A grass-covered earthen mound covers the remaining part of the chamber and surrounds the base of the windmill.

Local climate

Windmill, Hill House, Limekilns Road, Dunfermline receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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