Windmill is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1988. Windmill.

Windmill

WRENN ID
fading-string-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wigan
Constituency
Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 May 1988
Type
Windmill
Address
Windmill, Copperas Lane, Haigh
OS grid reference
SD 604 088
Coordinates
53.57518, -2.59854
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a windmill built in the mid-19th century for the brewery of J. Sumner. It is constructed of brick and features a tapering round tower topped with a ribbed timber cap and finial. The windmill has four sails. The tower includes a blocked entrance, two blocked windows, and three blocked cellar openings, all with plain stone lintels.

Local climate

Windmill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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