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Scarborough Windmill

Buildings and structures completed in 1785Buildings and structures in Scarborough, North YorkshireGrade II listed buildings in North YorkshireUse British English from March 2026Windmills in North Yorkshire
Victoria Mill, Scarborough
Victoria Mill, Scarborough

Scarborough Windmill, also known as Victoria Mill, is a historic building in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, a town in England. The windmill was built in about 1785 by Thomas Robinson. It was built on land owned by Scarborough Corporation and was originally known as the "Common Mill". The corn mill changed hands regularly before being purchased by Francis and Moses Harrison in about 1850. The brothers ran a business selling both corn and seeds. The mill originally had six sails, but these were badly damaged in a storm in 1880, one falling and killing a cow, and after repair it had only four sails. These were removed in 1898 and the mill was then powered by an engine. The mill closed in 1927 and was disused for many years before in 1988 being converted into part of a hotel. In 1997, it became self-catering accommodation, and in 1999, the sails and cap were replaced. The windmill is built of brick on a stone plinth. It is tapering, and has a circular plan and six storeys. Steps lead up to the doorway that has a segmental brick arch. There is another higher doorway, and the other openings are rectangular and decreasing in size towards the top. Inside, there are two apartments, each over two floors. Both have a combined lounge and kitchen area, and an en suite bedroom. The building has been grade II listed since 1987.

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Scarborough Londesborough Road railway station
Scarborough Londesborough Road railway station

Scarborough Londesborough Road railway station, originally called Washbeck Excursion Station, was built as an excursion station to ease operating pressure at Scarborough Central in the holiday resort of Scarborough. It had a through and a bay platform. Excursion trains from all over the country could be routed into it rather than the main Central station to disembark their passengers before heading onwards to the Whitby branch line to be stabled in carriage sidings at Northstead/Gallows Close on the town's northern outskirts. Return services would follow the same route in the opposite direction to load up before departure. It was opened on 8 June 1908 by the North Eastern Railway, but it was not advertised in public timetables until 1933, after it had been upgraded to a public station. It had one through platform which could handle a 14-carriage train, and a south-facing end platform which could handle 11-carriage trains. It was closed to passenger trains by British Railways on 25 August 1963, but remained in use for stabling coaching stock until its official closure on 4 July 1966.The station building and the remains of the 14 coach long platform can still be seen from trains on the Yorkshire Coast Line and on the York to Scarborough section of the North TransPennine route on the west side of the tracks approaching Scarborough. However, most of the platform has been demolished due to the construction of a new service depot for TransPennine Express trains.

Scarborough Borough Jail
Scarborough Borough Jail

Scarborough Borough Jail is a historic building in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, a town in England. The jail in Scarborough was historically at Newborough Gate in the Town Wall, and in the 19th century there were also cells in the workhouse on Dean Road. Between 1865 and 1866, the corporation built a new prison on Dean Road, to a design by William Baldwin Stewart and Alexander Taylor, at a cost of £12,000. It initially had a capacity of 36 men, 12 women and four debtors. On opening, 44 prisoners transferred in, and the capacity was soon increased to 79. One prison escaped in the first week, using an improvised rope to scale the wall. In 1878, the UK Government made new arrangements for prison provision, and the Scarborough Borough Jail was closed. More recently, the building has served as a council depot, with plans to convert it into a hotel not taken forward. The building has been grade II listed since 1985. The building has a perimeter wall of stone faced brick, elsewhere it is in brick, and has a slate roof. At the entrance is an embattled machicolated elliptical arch flanked by arrow slits, and with a carved plaque above. Outside the entrance are three-storey towers with embattled parapets, containing windows with pointed heads, flanked by walls ending in smaller towers. Inside, one cell block remains, with three storeys and fronts of three and ten bays. There is also a hexagonal guards' room, two single-storey blocks of workshops, and two rectangular stone houses.