Pilling Mill is on the market for £495,000 with Hatched Estate Agents (0161 300 1666)
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Ask someone in the 19th century if they wanted to buy a windmill, and you would be asking them if they felt up to a lifetime of relentless work, accompanied by the endless sound of rotating mill sails. Two hundred years later, however, the windmill that Nick and Catherine Edwards are selling, on the Fylde Coast, near Fleetwood, is an altogether more attractive proposition. Now, though, the four-hooved occupants have moved out, and the loudest noises are those of humans admiring the 360-degree views. It's not a situation which would have been envisaged by Ralph Slater, the millwright who constructed the building in 1808. But instead of being a place of hard toil, the Pilling Mill has become both the tallest building on the Fylde coast (five storeys,73 feet high), and the home with the best views. This thanks to a wraparound balcony not envisaged in the original plans, but added by Nick and Catherine in 2008. Pictures: Matthew Bishop And there it stands today. But although in many ways this is an unusually-shaped property, and the kind of place where you remember on the ground floor, that you've left your keys on the top floor, one thing everyone agree on, is that it's got character. And also a surprising amount of space, though not always on the same floor. Like all windmills, it starts off wide at the bottom (30 foot diameter), and by the time you reach the top it's just 18 feet wide. And if the weather's bad, you don't need to go outside for a run, you just climb the stairs a few times (there are five floors), then lie back and look out over Lancashire. When the sky is clear, you can even see England's highest mountain, Scafell Pike, 40 miles away. “We know, though, that out there is someone who will love this place as much as we have.”
Pilling Mill is on the market for £495,000 with Hatched Estate Agents (0161 300 1666)
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Greg Smith -AuthorI have 30+ years as a graphic designer under my belt. During that time I've worked on countless books; designing covers, layout, etc. Now I've decided to "go behind the camera." Now I'm trying my hand at writing. Archives
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