Old Windmill Tower, Windmill Road, Dysart is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 1971. Windmill.

Old Windmill Tower, Windmill Road, Dysart

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 January 1971
Type
Windmill
OS grid reference
NT 299 934
Coordinates
56.12842, -3.12829
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Windmill Tower, located on Windmill Road in Dysart, dates from the 17th to 18th century. It is a vaulted tower mill constructed of coursed rubble, featuring a later brick parapet. The structure has a circular plan with steeply battered walls and a reduced top stage that leads to a corbelled, battlemented parapet. There is a relieving arch near the ground on the east side, which was once part of the vault. The northeast side has a door and two windows that are currently blinded. The interior was not accessible as of 1997.

Local climate

Old Windmill Tower, Windmill Road, Dysart receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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