Stow Hill Windmill is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 April 1955. Tower mill. 5 related planning applications.
Stow Hill Windmill
- WRENN ID
- gilded-gargoyle-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1955
- Type
- Tower mill
- Address
- Stow Hill Windmill, Mundesley Road, Paston, NR28 9TG
- OS grid reference
- TG 316 357
- Coordinates
- 52.86973, 1.44007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stow Hill Windmill is a tower mill built in 1827. It is constructed of tarred brick and features a timber faceted domed cap. The mill has four storeys and a door located on the west side. It has segmental headed 20th-century iron casements at the cardinal points, with glazing bars, and two windows on each floor that are blind. Below the fantail gallery, there is a vertically boarded petticoat. The mill has an 8-vaned fantail with gearing and four sails that were erected in 1983.
Inside, the first floor is empty, while the second floor contains an upright shaft and gearing that were installed in 1983, sourced from Houghton Conquest Mill in Bedfordshire. The third floor features a windshaft, brakewheel, and wallower, also installed in 1983 from the same mill.
Local climate
Stow Hill Windmill receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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