The Old Windmill is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. A C18 Windmill. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Windmill
- WRENN ID
- night-groin-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- The Old Windmill, Windmill Lane, Albrighton and Donington, WV7 3BS
- OS grid reference
- SJ 802 040
- Coordinates
- 52.63391, -2.29292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Windmill is an 18th-century tower mill, later converted into a house. It has a sandstone ashlar base with a stepped plinth, a red brick upper section reinforced by iron straps, and a projecting wooden upper storey. The building is three storeys high. Windows and the entrance are 20th-century additions. The interior no longer contains the original machinery, but it retains a datestone inscribed “RW - 1768”. An external datestone is also dated 1768. In the early 20th century, Colonel Thorneycroft of Tettenhall Towers, near Wolverhampton, owned the windmill and constructed the upper storey as a lookout point to view the Shropshire Hills.
Local climate
The Old Windmill receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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