Windmill is a Grade I listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1953. A Industrial Windmill. 3 related planning applications.
Windmill
- WRENN ID
- iron-beam-owl
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1953
- Type
- Windmill
- Period
- Industrial
- Address
- Windmill, East Street, Alford, LN13 9EH
- OS grid reference
- TF 457 765
- Coordinates
- 53.26557, 0.18375
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The windmill, originally known as Hoyle's Mill, was built in 1837 by the Alford millwright Sam Oxley and was restored in 1979. It is a tower mill made of black bitumen painted brick, featuring five wooden sails and an ogee cap. The structure has six floors that taper towards a moulded top. The ground floor has double doors, while the other floors feature two-light sliding sash windows on all four sides, each with segmental heads. A timber balcony encircles the second floor, complete with a plain iron balustrade and double doors for access. On one side of the mill, there is a small cast iron flywheel, and on the opposite side, a fantail mounted on a cantilevered framework. The interior retains all floors, four pairs of stones, and ironwork and gearing made by Tuxfords of Boston, all of which are still in working order. This windmill is the last remaining of Alford's four tower mills. The flywheel at the base connects via a pulley to an engine in an adjacent shed, which was powered by town gas when there was not enough wind to operate the mill.
Local climate
Windmill receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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