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Manorial mill site recorded
The windmill site is associated with the original manorial wind corn mill at Treales.
Site overview
Treales Windmill is a Grade II listed tower corn mill at Treales. Historic records identify the site as the original manorial wind corn mill, and the surviving tower mill was built in the nineteenth century. The building is a four-storey tapering circular tower of rendered brick, later capped and converted for domestic use.
Photographic records show the tower without sails and with a pointed roof, standing beside later housing. Although the mill no longer survives with cap, sails, or working machinery, the converted tower preserves a substantial survival of the former Treales corn-milling site.
Map
Map markers and directions links are provided for location reference only and do not indicate public access or permission to enter a site.
No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Treales Windmill stands at Treales in the parish of Treales, Roseacre and Wharles. Historic records identify the site as the original manorial wind corn mill, giving the location a long association with local milling. The surviving tower mill was built in the nineteenth century and worked as a corn mill.
The structure is recorded as a tower mill and is protected as a Grade II listed building. It survives as a tapering circular tower of rendered brick, now capped and converted to domestic use. Archive photographs and modern windmill records show the tower after the loss of sails and working windmill equipment. The former mill is therefore no longer a complete operational windmill, but the standing converted tower retains the main masonry fabric and marks the historic wind-powered corn-milling site at Treales.
Timeline
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Converted to house
The former tower corn mill was converted for domestic use.
1800–1899
Tower mill built
The surviving tower windmill at Treales was built in the nineteenth century.
1986
Grade II listed
Treales Windmill was listed at Grade II.
Sources and records
Historic England listed building entry
Windmill World site entry
Heritage Gateway record: Treales Windmill
Mills Archive site record
Lincolnshire Museums photographic record
List of windmills in Lancashire
Windmill World site entry
Heritage Gateway record: Treales Windmill
Mills Archive site record
Lincolnshire Museums photographic record
List of windmills in Lancashire