Penny Hill Windmill is a Grade II listed building in the South Holland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. Windmill.
Penny Hill Windmill
- WRENN ID
- pitched-flagstone-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Holland
- Constituency
- South Holland and The Deepings MP: Sir John Hayes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1987
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Penny Hill Windmill, Washway Road, Holbeach
- OS grid reference
- TF 358 266
- Coordinates
- 52.82068, 0.01433
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penny Hill Windmill is a tower mill built between 1826 and 1827, with a later 19th-century top storey. It is constructed of red brick and currently has no roof. The mill stands six storeys tall. On the north side, there are steps leading up to a doorway with double doors, along with four glazing bar windows arranged one above the other. There is another doorway to the north-west with double doors. The west side features a blocked window opening and three glazing bar windows stacked vertically. The south side has five glazing bar windows, but the third and sixth floor windows are now blocked. The east side also has five glazing bar windows arranged one above the other. All openings have segmental heads. No milling machinery remains inside the mill.
Local climate
Penny Hill Windmill sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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