Langrigg Windmill Langrigg · Cumbria · England

Langrigg Windmill stands at Langrigg in Bromfield parish and is one of the surviving Cumbrian tower mills to have been adapted for domestic use. The building is recorded as an early nineteenth-century former windmill and later private house. Its structure is a three-storey tapering circular tower built of painted quarry-faced sandstone and set beneath a domed wooden cap. The present building includes twentieth-century alterations, including casement windows set mainly within original plain reveals. A circular wrap-around extension at the base forms part of the later domestic adaptation.

The mill was originally a tower corn mill. By 1860, the sails had already been removed, and the building was described as being worked alternatively by water and steam. This indicates that the wind-powered phase had ended by the mid nineteenth century and that the site continued in some form of powered milling or mechanical use after the removal of the sails. Later conversion to a private house preserved the tower form while replacing the working character of the mill with residential use.

The building was listed at Grade II on 11 April 1967 and the entry was amended on 13 August 1985. The listing identifies the building as The Windmill and describes it as formerly listed as Windmill House, Langrigg. Historic England archive material includes a 1966 photograph looking across fields towards Langrigg Mill and cottages in the Mill Yard, as well as later imagery of The Windmill or Windmill House. The surviving tower, cap, and domestic adaptation make the site a clear example of a former Cumbrian tower mill retained through reuse rather than working restoration.