Windmill at North End of Bamburgh Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. Windmill.
Windmill at North End of Bamburgh Castle
- WRENN ID
- riven-wall-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1987
- Type
- Windmill
- OS grid reference
- NU 181 351
- Coordinates
- 55.61006, -1.71272
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The windmill at the north end of Bamburgh Castle is a mid-18th century structure built for Dr. Sharpe, who was the chairman of the Crewe Trustees. It is constructed of ashlar and features a lead roof. The windmill has three storeys and a round, tapering profile. The ground floor has a boarded and battened door, while the upper levels are adorned with various small, four-pane, segment-headed windows. At the top, it is capped with a low pyramidal roof.
Local climate
Windmill at North End of Bamburgh Castle receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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