Windmill at Mill Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1984. Windmill.
Windmill at Mill Farm
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-soffit-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1984
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Windmill at Mill Farm, Sand Lane, Besthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SK 833 650
- Coordinates
- 53.17642, -0.75479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The windmill at Mill Farm dates from around 1746 and 1831. It features a combination of brick and stone with a timber structure inside and a 20th-century timber roof. The windmill has a circular battered tower with two stages, and the lower section is part of a post mill. Brick buttresses support stone blocks that carry the projecting ends of the cross trees. There is a pair of close boarded doors, with brick above inscribed 'TC 1831', and a pair of shuttered openings, all featuring segmental heads. The second stage includes a shuttered opening with a segmental head on the south-east side and a close boarded door on the north side. Inside, the main post is inscribed 'J.S. 1746', and there are cross trees and quarter bars made of oak, which are whitewashed.
Local climate
Windmill at Mill Farm 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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