Windmill Tower at Mill Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. Windmill tower.

Windmill Tower at Mill Farm

WRENN ID
hollow-vestry-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Riding of Yorkshire
Constituency
Goole and Pocklington MP: David Davis (Con)
Country
England
Type
Windmill tower
Address
Windmill Tower at Mill Farm, Wressle
OS grid reference
SE 710 311
Coordinates
53.77181, -0.92419
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The windmill tower at Mill Farm is a 19th-century structure built of brick in English garden wall bond. It is a tapering, four-storey tower featuring double board doors on the east side and fixed windows on the ground and first floors. There are also fixed windows on the east and west sides of the second and third floors. The tower has no cap and no surviving machinery.

Local climate

Windmill Tower at Mill Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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