Windmill is a Grade I listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. A Circa 1680 Mill.
Windmill
- WRENN ID
- gentle-oriel-jay
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Windmill, Church Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 763 259
- Coordinates
- 51.90435, 0.56147
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Windmill is a notable post mill dating from around 1680. It was relocated to its current site in 1830, at which time a two-storey round brick base was constructed. The mill is weather-boarded and features a tail pole and a sack hoist. It holds the distinction of being the first post mill in the country to be designated as a historical monument, having been transferred to the Urban District Council by the Tabor family in 1929, when it was still in full working order.
Local climate
Windmill sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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