Neston Old Windmill Neston · Cheshire · England

The Old Windmill stands on the west side of Leighton Road at Neston. It is a mid-eighteenth-century tower windmill, later altered and converted after its working life ended. County windmill lists identify it as Great Neston Mill, while the statutory listed name is Old Windmill.

The listed building is a circular red-brick tower laid in English bond. It rises through four stages and has a slated boat-shaped cap with gantry. The tower is approximately ten metres in diameter at the base. Its later adaptation included a first-floor entrance reached by twelve external steps to a railed balcony, with a garage below. Two-light casement windows with glazing bars were inserted on each floor. The internal mill fixtures and fittings have been removed.

The windmill was listed at Grade II in 1962. By the time of the listing description it had been converted to a picture gallery and shop, showing a post-working commercial reuse rather than preservation as an operating mill. The Old Windmill now survives as a converted tower mill, retaining the principal brick form and cap of one of Neston's historic windmills.