Windmill is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1962. Windmill. 2 related planning applications.
Windmill
- WRENN ID
- upper-rampart-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1962
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Windmill, Cambridge Road, Fulbourn, CB21 5EG
- OS grid reference
- TL 510 559
- Coordinates
- 52.18093, 0.20789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Windmill is a Grade II listed smock windmill built in 1808 by Thomas Hunt of Soham. It has a timber frame with horizontal weatherboarding on a brick first stage, and features an octagonal plan with three stages, a revolving conical cap, and a fantail. Of the four sails, two are intact. Inside, the mill retains much of its original machinery. Unlike most mills in Cambridgeshire, it has three runner stones that are overdriven, with the great spur wheel located on the bin floor.
Local climate
Windmill 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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 — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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