Windmill, to Rear of the Mill House is a Grade II* listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1959. Windmill. 1 related planning application.
Windmill, to Rear of the Mill House
- WRENN ID
- salt-lancet-elm
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1959
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Windmill, to Rear of the Mill House, Mill Hill, Swaffham Prior, CB25 0JZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 572 642
- Coordinates
- 52.25379, 0.302
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The windmill located to the rear of the Mill House in Swaffham Prior is a tower windmill built in 1864 and restored in the late 20th century. It features a clunch exterior faced with brick and tar, and is structured in three stages. The ground floor has a plank stable door, while the upper levels have glazing bar casements that decrease in size as they ascend. The windmill is topped with a revolving ogee cap, four sails, and a fantail.
Inside, the windmill retains its original floors and staircases, as well as all of its original internal milling machinery, including two pairs of grinding stones. This makes it a very complete example of a tower mill from its period.
Local climate
Windmill, to Rear of the Mill House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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