Bidston Windmill is a Grade II* listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. Windmill. 2 related planning applications.

Bidston Windmill

WRENN ID
stranded-brick-umber
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1950
Type
Windmill
Address
Bidston Windmill, Vyner Road North
OS grid reference
SJ 287 893
Coordinates
53.39631, -3.07333
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bidston Windmill is a late 18th-century windmill located on Vyner Road North in Birkenhead. The windmill features a circular tapering tower with roughcast render, likely applied over stone, and is topped with a boarded cap and sails. There is a doorway to the tower that has a lintel inscribed with "Restored A.D. 1894". The windmill underwent restoration in the late 19th century and again in 1971. In 1909, the Corporation of Birkenhead acquired the windmill along with the surrounding land.

Local climate

Bidston Windmill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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