Ringstead Mill is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1982. Tower windmill. 1 related planning application.

Ringstead Mill

WRENN ID
open-rubblework-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
Constituency
North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 December 1982
Type
Tower windmill
Address
Ringstead Mill, Peddars Way North, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE36 5JP
OS grid reference
TF 705 416
Coordinates
52.94496, 0.53715
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ringstead Mill is an early 19th-century tower windmill constructed of header bond gault brick, which is partly blackened. It features a temporary 20th-century asbestos roof. The mill stands six stories tall, with the cap creating an additional storey. The south face has a ground floor door from the 20th century in its original opening, which is topped by a flat arch made of gault brick with a central keystone. Four of the five floors above have one 2-light casement window each, also under flat arches with keystones, and the first-floor window displays a rampant lion crest.

On the west face, there are four openings, with the third-floor opening having once served as a loft door. The north face has five openings, while the east face features one boarded 2-leaf loft door and one casement window. The mill has a brick eaves cornice and a wooden shuttered skirt, which may be original. On the north face, there is a surviving metal canister for six sails. The cap is covered with 20th-century asbestos. A house built around 1920 attached to the east is not considered of special interest.

Local climate

Ringstead Mill receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 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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