Burscough Mill Heights Burscough · Lancashire · England

Mill Heights, formerly listed as the windmill on former Martin Mere, is a surviving tower windmill at Fish Lane, Burscough. The building is probably later eighteenth century in date and is protected as a Grade II listed building. It is constructed of brown brick in English garden wall bond and has an approximately circular plan. The tower rises through six stages and has a wooden cap. Later domestic changes include a twentieth-century porch, two doorways in the bottom stage, and segmental-headed windows arranged vertically on three sides.

The mill is also identified in specialist windmill lists as Mere Mill, Burscough, a tower mill at the same location. Its historic setting relates to the former Martin Mere landscape and the agricultural village area around Holmeswood and Burscough. The precise working chronology is not fully recoverable from the main published entries, but the surviving form records the later eighteenth-century tower-mill phase of wind-powered milling in west Lancashire.

The building was converted for residential use, probably during the mid-to-late twentieth century. It now survives as Windmill On The Farm, holiday accommodation arranged over six floors. Present descriptions retain the historic name Mill Heights and describe the converted building as a brick tower windmill with a boat-shaped wooden cap. Although its working machinery is no longer the focus of the site, the tower, cap form, and circular vertical mass remain highly legible. Mill Heights is now both a protected listed structure and a distinctive converted windmill within the rural Burscough landscape.