Building record 2283/1 - Gibbet Windmill

Gibbet windmill. Parkgate Road. Formerly a windmill, now a house. Later 18th C with renovations, extensions and conversion to house 1960 for the Parker family. Washed English bond brick with weather-boarded and shingled cap. 3-storey and loft over basement. Tall tapering brick tower with 2-light casements with glazing bars, partly inserted and partly using original openings. The set of sails are copies of the originals, but shortened and do not rotate. To the S is a 1-storey Welsh slate roofed 20th C extension and the basement has been converted to a garage. Interior: Massive partly shaped post runs up through the tower. Loft contains a large cast-iron shaft on square wooden framework (1).

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /4/26 (Report). SCH1934.