Description

SD3627
621-1/4/58

LYTHAM ST ANNES
Lytham
EAST BEACH (south side)
Windmill

06/06/51

GV
II
Windmill. c.1805; in use until damaged by fire in 1918; restored 1987. Tower mill. Brick, rendered and painted white, with plinth of rendered cobble walling, wooden cap and sails.

Conical four-stage tower, the first stage enclosed by a wide plinth (which is a former protective wall subsequently roofed over and used for loading); doorway in south side of second stage, with access from rectangular deck on plinth, approached by steps up that side; one segmental-headed window above this doorway and three similar windows vertically aligned on the south-west and north-east sides; S-shaped tie-plates. Boat-shaped clinker-built wooden cap (now fixed) with fantail; restored wooden sails facing south-west.

Very prominent and well-known local landmark dominating the grassed sea-front area known as Lytham Green, and one of the few windmills surviving in the Fylde of Lancashire.

Forms group with the Old Lifeboat House immediately to the south (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD3706927014

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Lytham Windmill at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q20709565

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Recommended Books

• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)