The Windmill Inn is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. Public house.
The Windmill Inn
- WRENN ID
- noble-pillar-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1986
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Windmill Inn, High Street, Swinstead
- OS grid reference
- TF 018 225
- Coordinates
- 52.79054, -0.4906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Windmill Inn is a public house dating from the 17th century, with 18th-century additions and alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings, and has pantile roofs with crested ridge tiles. The building has a single raised stone-coped gable and three ridge stacks, two of which are brick and one is moulded ashlar.
The structure is L-shaped and consists of a single storey with attics, presenting an irregular seven-bay front. The leftmost bay is gable-ended to the street, while the right end has two slightly taller bays. The entrance is off-centre, featuring a six flush panelled door that is flanked by single canted rendered 18th-century bay windows with fixed plain lights and hipped roofs. To the right, there are two similar bay windows and two 20th-century three-light casements. On the first floor of the left-hand range, there is a 20th-century two-light casement with a wooden lintel. The roofs on the right side include four gabled dormers, each with two-light casements and rendered cheeks.
Local climate
The Windmill Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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