Tower Mill is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1985. Tower mill. 1 related planning application.
Tower Mill
- WRENN ID
- dusk-corbel-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1985
- Type
- Tower mill
- Address
- Tower Mill, Ely Road, Downham, CB6 2SN
- OS grid reference
- TL 531 838
- Coordinates
- 52.43103, 0.25058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower Mill is an early to mid 19th century tower mill constructed from tarred gault brick. It stands three storeys tall and has no surviving internal features. The window openings are unframed.
Local climate
Tower Mill 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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