PRESTON WINDMILL

Chris Newman

THE FORMER TOWER WINDMILL AT CRAGGS ROW, PRESTON, CONSTRUCTED AS A CORN MILL AND BELIEVED TO DATE FROM THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY OR EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY, IS THE LAST REMAINING STRUCTURE OF ITS TYPE IN THE CITY. THE BUILDING COMPRISES THE MAIN TAPERING CYLINDRICAL TOWER (SIX LEVELS) WITH AN ATTACHED TWO STOREY GABLED EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH. THE BUILDING SITS ROADSIDE AND IS FRONTED BY THE PEDESTRIAN PAVEMENTS OF CRAGGS ROW TO THE WEST AND SINGLETON ROW TO THE SOUTH. TO THE NORTH AND EAST THE BUILDING SITS UPAGAINST THE BOUNDARY OF A SECURE CAR PARK BELONGING TO LANCASHIRE CONSTABULARY. CRAGGS ROW WINDMILL HAS A GRADE II LISTED STATUS (LISTED IN 1968).

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