Tower Mill is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. A C19 Windmill, water tower.
Tower Mill
- WRENN ID
- silent-stair-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Windmill, water tower
- Address
- Tower Mill, Rampton Road, Cottenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 444 673
- Coordinates
- 52.28563, 0.11582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower Mill is a tower windmill that has been converted into a water tower. It dates from the early to mid-19th century and is constructed of brick that has been tarred. The structure consists of three stages, although the cap has been removed. It is referenced in Arthur T. Smith's work, "Wind and Water Mills of Cambridgeshire."
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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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