A fairy-tale windmill resplendent with 360-degree balconies is available to buy in the North Wales countryside.
The one-of-a-kind home billed as the epitome of a “character property”, is for sale for £370,000.
Gros Onnen has been a part of the view at Holywell, a picturesque North Wales village, a stone's throw from Merseyside,North Wales Live reports.
The windmill is over 200 years old and a rare example of a full-height Welsh windmill today as it sits amongst other homes in the countryside.
It could be the perfect fairytale home - if any potential buyers could live with the 64 steps inside.
The Grade II-listed property is thought to have been built between 1780-1800 and it stopped operating as a flour mill in the 1890s.
After being converted for residential use, it was left with four bedrooms, two bathrooms and 64 steps to reach the top.
New Home 4 are the selling agents in charge of the windmills sale, they said: "One of the very few habitable windmills in the North West.
"This fabulous home is somewhere I, and I suspect many others, have been driving past for years thinking, ‘ooh, I’d love to live there’ – well now, this is your chance.
"Imagine the parties that you can hold here. In fact, you'd think about charging your friends and family to pop round, the views are amazing."
They added: "This place really is like no other."
The windmill is located on a large plot of land and comes with a garden that has an enclosed patio, greenhouse, vegetable patch and ornamental pond.
It even comes with the mill’s original grinding stone.
Outbuildings host a garage and workshop - these could be converted into an office or another living space and the agents suggest an Airbnb is a possibility.
Inside the mill, there’s a semicircular sitting room on the ground floor that can be used as a dining room.
Also on this level is the “work of art” kitchen with curved work surfaces and antique oak storage units.
Close by is a bathroom and a utility room with further storage.
The mill’s feature room is the lounge that fills the first floor.
The agent said: "Obviously it is a circular room. And it really is quite vast."
From here, two French doors give access to a walkway all around the outside of the home.
Up the next flight of stairs lies the master bedroom and a shower room.
Many of the mill's built-in fixtures are bespoke, including storage space under the staircase that spirals its way around the building.
The third floor contains a further bedroom and an office.
Another, final climb, totalling the 64 steps, brings you to a large circular room that once housed the drive shaft for the mill’s sails.
In fact, the shaft has been retained as a reminder of the building’s heritage.
This top floor room, suggests the selling agent, would make an “excellent games room or even an office”.
From the mezzanine, there’s access to the upper walkway. It offers breathtaking views of the surrounding area.
The agents said: "The Wirral, Liverpool Bay and the entire Dee estuary stretch out before you and the inhabitants of Holywell scurry about like insects at your feet."
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