Sneaths Mill is a Grade I listed building in the South Holland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 October 1976. A 1779 Windmill. 2 related planning applications.
Sneaths Mill
- WRENN ID
- eastward-thatch-candle
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- South Holland
- Constituency
- South Holland and The Deepings MP: Sir John Hayes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1976
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Sneaths Mill, Lutton Gowts, PE12 9LQ
- OS grid reference
- TF 435 243
- Coordinates
- 52.79717, 0.12819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sneath's Mill is a tower windmill built in 1779, constructed of red brick and featuring dogtooth eaves. The mill is octagonal and stands four storeys tall. On the south side, there is a doorway with an ashlar plaque above it inscribed with 'T.D. Ayliff 1779'. The first floor has a single window opening, while the east and west sides have window openings on the first, second, and third floors. The north side has blocked doorways at the ground and first floors, along with a single blocked window opening above.
Inside, the mill features an oak wind shaft with an iron poll end and a clasp arm brake wheel. It also contains a clasp arm wallower, which is crudely cogged and serves as a trundle or face gear-wheel. There is a wooden upright shaft with a clasp arm great spur wheel, and the drive to the flour dresser is largely intact, mostly made of wood and driven by a pinion from the great spur wheel. The datestone may indicate that in 1779, a wooden smock mill was moved to this site and encased in brick. Notably, the plan of the mill and the poll end and trundle gears are unique to Lincolnshire, as they are the last surviving examples in the region.
Local climate
Sneaths Mill 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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