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Almost everything curves in this award winning restored windmill at Cockfield, near Lavenham.

Originally built in 1891, the recently converted Windmill has been lovingly restored over the past 2 years by owners Steve and Natalie Roberts into lavish and luxurious adults- only holiday accommodation.

You’ve seen the programmes, watched the nightmare property blunders, and wondered why on earth anyone would take on such a challenge.

Now meet the Suffolk couple who rose to a mammoth quest in order to develop a hospitality business near Bury St Edmunds.

It’s not often you get the chance to transform as unique a space as a disused windmill, but that’s just what Livingwood are proud to have been a part of.

From a windmill to power station and public toilet, Daisy Jeffery takes a look at some of the UK’s most unusual conversion projects.

The windmill is a contemporary conversion and reconstruction of a derelict windmill to provide a unique tourist attraction.

A windmill that had been left derelict in a back garden for much of the 20 century has been transformed into luxurious holiday accommodation following a bold conversion project.  

A windmill has won the RICS East of England Tourism and Leisure award. Mill Farm Windmill in Cockfield is a contemporary conversion and reconstruction of a derelict windmill providing tourist accommodation. Nestled in beautiful countryside, the windmill is located two miles from Lavenham, providing panoramic views from the newly-constructed zinc and cross-laminated timber pod.

When it comes to this highly original holiday home almost everything is in the round.

Surveyor Steve Roberts and his wife Natalie knew their dream property presented a conundrum, specifically an absence of straight walls. However, they have quite literally risen to the challenge restoring a 1891 windmill, if not to its former working glory, then modifying its use to fashion an intriguing, high spec holiday home.