Howsams Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1951. Mill.
Howsams Mill
- WRENN ID
- sacred-corner-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1951
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Howsams Mill, Chapel Road, Old Leake
- OS grid reference
- TF 398 521
- Coordinates
- 53.04831, 0.08504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Howsam's Mill is a tower mill built in 1859. It features a red brick tapering tower with five floors. Each floor has a two-light pivot window with shallow segmental heads. The mill retains old machinery, including an iron upright shaft, an iron spur wheel, a governor, four bedstones, and two French and two grey stones.
Local climate
Howsams Mill receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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