Little Marton Mill

Little Marton Mill is a three-storey brick building with a basement, circular in plan, and dating to the 1830s. The brick is rendered with white paint externally, and the roof is timber, with sails and a fantail.

The main entrance, with modern double doors, faces east at basement level. Taking-in doors are located on the east and west sides of the first floor, and modern timber-framed casement windows are present on all floors except the basement. A plaque commemorating the Allen Clarke Memorial Windmill is fixed to the east side of the building. The windows are arranged with three on the first and second floors and two on the third floor. The roof, rebuilt in 1986, is a timber cap constructed in the traditional Fylde style, reminiscent of an upturned boat, and features four dummy sails and a dummy fantail with eight small sails.

The basement contains a concrete floor with a 67-inch diameter millstone grit grinding stone placed centrally. Brick walls have been built to create a room housing a toilet and small kitchen. A plaque commemorating the Allen Clarke Memorial Windmill is also on the inner wall. Modern metal girders supported on a circular cinder column support the first floor, which incorporates modern floors and staircases. One original timber lintel remains on the first floor; all others have been replaced. The second floor houses original machinery, including a yellow-painted cast iron great spur cog wheel constructed in two halves and bolted. The upper floor retains much original cast iron machinery, including a blue-painted vertical shaft, a green-painted cogged wheel known as a wallower, and a red-painted wind shaft that drives the external sails, as well as a vertical wooden brake wheel connected to the wallower. The remaining machinery operates the cap, comprising gears, shafts, centering wheels, and a cogged pinion around the top of the tower, enabling the sails to turn into the wind.