Windmill Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1953. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
Windmill Hotel
- WRENN ID
- tilted-eave-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1953
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Windmill Hotel, Market Place, Alford, LN13 9EB
- OS grid reference
- TF 454 760
- Coordinates
- 53.2611, 0.17934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Windmill Hotel is an early 19th-century hotel located on the west side of Market Place in Alford. It features a brown brick façade that is rendered at the front and has a slate roof, hipped at one end with a single gable and wall stacks. The building stands three stories high and has a five-bay front, with the left two bays slightly projecting forward. A paired bracketed cornice adorns the top.
The entrance consists of off-centre half-glazed double panelled doors with a plain overlight, framed by a wooden Doric doorcase that has a flat projecting hood. To the right of the door are a single glazing bar sash window, and to the left are three more glazing bar sash windows. On the first floor, there are three similar windows, along with a canted tripartite oriel window to the right, featuring bordered sashes. The second floor has five smaller glazing bar sash windows.
Historically, this site was once home to the Customs Office, where Thomas Paine, the author of "Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason," worked as an excise officer from 1764 to 1765.
Local climate
Windmill Hotel 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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