Billingford Windmill is a Grade II* listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. Windmill. 1 related planning application.
Billingford Windmill
- WRENN ID
- sombre-threshold-jay
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Billingford Windmill, Billingford Common, Scole, IP21 4ND
- OS grid reference
- TM 166 785
- Coordinates
- 52.36231, 1.1812
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Billingford Windmill is a grade II* listed tower mill built around 1862, on the site of an earlier post mill that was destroyed in a storm in 1860. This brick structure is circular in plan and consists of five storeys. It features segmental headed window and doorway openings, with doors located on the ground and first floors. The mill's cap, fan, sails, and machinery are all complete and in working order. It ceased operations in 1956 and was the last mill to operate by wind in Norfolk.
Local climate
Billingford Windmill sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 application
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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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