The Windmill Public House is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Windmill Public House
- WRENN ID
- stranded-sentry-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1972
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Windmill Public House, Wigan Road, L39 2AU
- OS grid reference
- SD 418 081
- Coordinates
- 53.56658, -2.87981
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Windmill Public House is a house that has been converted into a public house, dating from around 1700. It has undergone alterations and features later extensions at the rear. The building is constructed of handmade brown brick in Flemish bond, with red brick dressings and a slate roof. It has a double-depth plan that runs parallel to the road, with an added back extension. The structure stands three storeys high and originally had four windows. It features a two-course band at the first floor and a three-course moulded and coped band at the second floor.
The doorway located in the second bay is now fitted with a 20th-century wooden doorcase that has a pediment and fluted pilasters. The windows above this doorway were blocked up early on, while the remaining windows are all sashed without glazing bars. The ground and first-floor windows have deep flat-arched heads made of red brick, with the soffits shaped in a wavy pattern. The second-floor windows are square and have simpler surrounds. The building also has extruded gable chimney stacks. At the rear, there is a lower two-storey extension with a stone slate roof. The interior has been remodelled. The Windmill Public House forms a group with the associated cobbled forecourt.
Local climate
The Windmill Public House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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