Pittendreich Mill

Pittendreich Mill in Elgin, Scotland, was built around 1830 by Moray Estates with parts stemming from the early 19th century, and designed to handle meal, flour and barley.[1]

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Milling is known to have been carried out in the area as early as 1200.[2] An earlier mill was erected between 1444-1445 by the priory of Pluscarden, leading to a dispute with James Douglas who had received Pittendreich from King James III in a feu charter of 1469.[3] This later led to James Douglas joining an attack on Dean Alexander Dunbar in the chanonry of Elgin in which the dean was badly wounded and his thirteen-year-old daughter, killed.[4]

Pittendreich Mill was powered by water[5] from the Black Burn until the early 1900s when it was converted to oil. Later conversions included electricity. The mill would process meal, flour, and barley, with a kiln used to dry oats which would then be milled into oatmeal. The mill closed in the 1930s[6]

After several years of disuse, the mill was converted into a home in 1976.[6] The kiln now served as a chimney, with one mill-stone acting as a lounge feature and the other embedded in a grassy bank outside the property. More recently, the property was offered for sale in December 2006 and again in September 2017.[7]