Part of Numbers 96 and 98 Former Windmill Tower, Ravenhead is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 1992. Windmill.
Part of Numbers 96 and 98 Former Windmill Tower, Ravenhead
- WRENN ID
- floating-transept-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens South and Whiston MP: Ms Marie Rimmer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 November 1992
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Part of Numbers 96 and 98 Former Windmill Tower, Ravenhead, Ravenhead Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 502 942
- Coordinates
- 53.44269, -2.75103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a former windmill tower, likely built in the late 18th century, with some alterations from the early 19th century and later removals. The structure is a tapering circular brick tower, constructed with brickwork laid in garden wall bond. It features a flat roof and a 20th-century metal ladder that provides access to the roof. The cap sails and machinery have been removed. The tower has three storeys, with the middle (first) floor containing three nine-paned sash windows set beneath segmental brick arches. The lower part of the tower is now enclosed within later 19th-century housing, specifically numbers 96 and 98. Historically, this mill was linked to the Ravenhead Plate Glassworks, established in 1773, and it appears as one of two windmills associated with the Glassworks on the Sheriffs map of 1816. This connection suggests that the windmill may have shifted from grain milling to serving the glassmaking process.
Local climate
Part of Numbers 96 and 98 Former Windmill Tower, Ravenhead sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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