Smock Mill is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1959. Mill.
Smock Mill
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-groin-holly
- 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
- Mill
- Address
- Smock Mill, Lode Lane, Wicken
- OS grid reference
- TL 562 705
- Coordinates
- 52.31114, 0.28996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smock Mill is a small smock mill from the early 20th century, originally built to drain Adventurers Fen. It was moved to its current location in 1956 and is now a working mill that pumps water into Wicken Fen, which is a National Trust Nature Reserve. The mill is timber framed and weatherboarded, standing on a concrete sill. It has four sides, two storeys, a boat cap, four sails, and a tail pole. Each side features a projection for the scoop wheel.
Local climate
Smock Mill 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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