Windmill Including Attached Bakery, Millers House and Humphrey Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1985. Windmill. 3 related planning applications.
Windmill Including Attached Bakery, Millers House and Humphrey Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-chapel-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1985
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Windmill Including Attached Bakery, Millers House and Humphrey Cottage, Mill Lane, Bircham, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE31 6SJ
- OS grid reference
- TF 760 326
- Coordinates
- 52.86277, 0.61328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a windmill, which includes an attached bakery, miller's house, and Humphrey Cottage, located on Mill Lane in Great Bircham. The towermill was constructed in 1846 and features tarred English bond brick with a wooden cap roof. It stands five storeys tall, with a circular sixth storey cap. The cap and sails were restored between 1976 and 1983, and there is a stone plaque on the south face that reads "GH 1846." The interior is fully operational, containing both re-used and replaced machinery. Attached to the west is a single-storey bakehouse made of red brick with a red pantiled roof, which includes a mid-19th century side flue oven. The miller's house, also attached to the west, is two storeys high and has three bays; it is currently divided into two separate occupations. The entire complex is noted for its group value.
Local climate
Windmill Including Attached Bakery, Millers House and Humphrey Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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