Windmill at Mill Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Windmill.
Windmill at Mill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- former-quartz-flax
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1986
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Windmill at Mill Cottage, Mill Road, West Wratting
- OS grid reference
- TL 605 510
- Coordinates
- 52.13408, 0.34438
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The windmill at Mill Cottage, located on West Wratting Mill Road, is a smock mill built in 1726. It features a combination of brick and timber framing, which is weatherboarded and tarred, with a metal capping. The structure consists of three stages, including a brick ground stage that was added when it was converted to a tower mill. Each stage has a small modern window. The windmill received new sails and a tail pole in 1979. Inside, there are two underdriven grinding stones, and the machinery remains intact.
Local climate
Windmill at Mill Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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