Willaston Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1962. Windmill. 1 related planning application.
Willaston Mill
- WRENN ID
- small-span-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 December 1962
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Willaston Mill, Mill Lane, CH64 1RQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 327 784
- Coordinates
- 53.29837, -3.0105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willaston Mill is a windmill that has been converted into a dwelling, built in 1805. The structure is made of red brick arranged in English Garden Wall bond and has a circular plan. The exterior features a five-stage tapering tower built on a basement. There are lifting doorways that have been fitted with French windows, and the windows themselves are replacement multi-pane casements. The openings are segment arched. The mill retains its boat-shaped cap, along with the sail cross arms, starting wheel, and gantry. Inside, the machinery that once rotated the cap is still present in the upper stage, although the mill had already been adapted for residential use by 1962.
Local climate
Willaston Mill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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