Madingley Mill, at Mill Farm, Madingley Hill is a Grade II* listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1962. Post mill.
Madingley Mill, at Mill Farm, Madingley Hill
- WRENN ID
- moated-roof-finch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1962
- Type
- Post mill
- Address
- Madingley Mill, at Mill Farm, Madingley Hill, St Neots Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 407 595
- Coordinates
- 52.21586, 0.05948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Madingley Mill is a post mill that dates from the 20th century and is located at Mill Farm on Madingley Hill. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded, standing on a brick plinth. The mill features a boat cap and four patent sails. It was relocated from Ellington in Huntingdonshire in 1936. Inside the mill, there is an inscription stating, "Walter Ambrose Harding of Madingley Hall caused this Windmill to be brought from Ellington in Huntingdonshire and to be rebuilt here on the site of the old mill which fell down in July 1909. Mr C J Ison, builder of Histon finished it the 1st June 1936."
Local climate
Madingley Mill, at Mill Farm, Madingley Hill 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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