Waltham Windmill is a Grade II* listed building in the North East Lincolnshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1952. Windmill.
Waltham Windmill
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-eave-foxglove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North East Lincolnshire
- Constituency
- Brigg and Immingham MP: Martin Vickers (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1952
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Waltham Windmill, Brigsley Road
- OS grid reference
- TA 259 032
- Coordinates
- 53.51115, -0.10215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Waltham Windmill is a Grade II* tower windmill built in 1880 by John Saunderson of Louth. Since 1966, it has undergone restorations. The windmill features a tarred brick tower with a wooden cap and sails, and it has a tapered round shape with six storeys. The entrance includes a two-fold recessed board door, and there are original 20-pane iron casements in renewed wooden frames beneath segmental arches. The second floor has four windows, while the other floors have two windows each, with single windows on the third and fourth floors (the original two on these floors are now blocked). A corbelled cornice adorns the top of the tower. The wooden ogee cap has been renewed and includes a ball finial, a fantail, and six sails, of which two have been replaced and the rest restored.
Inside, the windmill contains a complete set of machinery, including two over-driven and two under-driven stones, with one of each being French burr and the other Derbyshire millstone grit. The main and subsidiary shafts and wheels are made of cast iron, with alternate cogged wheels in wood to prevent sparks. The original sack lift operates on a continuous chain, driven by a wallower, and the interior retains its original floor beams along with restored or renewed corn chutes, stairs, and floors. This windmill is notable as the last six-sailed mill built in Lincolnshire and is the only such mill currently in full working order. It is maintained and operated by the Waltham Windmill Preservation Society.
Local climate
Waltham Windmill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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