Northfield Windmill is a Grade II* listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Windmill.
Northfield Windmill
- WRENN ID
- grey-bastion-rye
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1983
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Northfield Windmill, the Shades, Soham
- OS grid reference
- TL 587 750
- Coordinates
- 52.35095, 0.3289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Northfield Windmill is an early 18th-century smock windmill originally used for drainage. It was relocated to its current site in the 19th century and raised on a brick plinth. The structure now functions as a three-storey corn mill. It features a timber frame with weatherboarding and has an ogee-shaped wooden cap topped with a ball finial. The original sails and fantail are still present. Inside, much of the machinery remains intact, including the windshaft, wallower, and main shaft. On the ground floor, the great spur wheel drives two grinding stones located on the stone floor.
Local climate
Northfield Windmill 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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