Windmill

The windmill, built around 1805, is a Grade II listed structure located on the south side of East Beach in Lytham St Annes. It was in use until it was damaged by fire in 1918 and was restored in 1987. This tower mill is constructed of brick, rendered and painted white, with a plinth made of rendered cobble walling, and features a wooden cap and sails.

The windmill has a conical four-stage tower, with the first stage enclosed by a wide plinth that served as a protective wall, later roofed over and used for loading. There is a doorway on the south side of the second stage, with access from a rectangular deck on the plinth, which is approached by steps. Above this doorway, there is one segmental-headed window, along with three similar windows vertically aligned on the south-west and north-east sides. The structure includes S-shaped tie-plates. The boat-shaped clinker-built wooden cap is now fixed and features a fantail, while the restored wooden sails face south-west.

This windmill is a prominent and well-known local landmark, dominating the grassed sea-front area known as Lytham Green, and is one of the few surviving windmills in the Fylde of Lancashire. It forms a group with the Old Lifeboat House immediately to the south.