Disused Windmill (Now Part of Hempnall Mill Centre) is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Windmill. 5 related planning applications.
Disused Windmill (Now Part of Hempnall Mill Centre)
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-window-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Disused Windmill (Now Part of Hempnall Mill Centre), Mill Road, NR15 2LP
- OS grid reference
- TM 237 942
- Coordinates
- 52.50014, 1.29516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a disused 19th-century tower windmill, which is now part of the Hempnall Mill Centre. The windmill features tarred brick walls and has a circular plan. Currently, it is derelict and roofless, with no machinery remaining inside.
Local climate
Disused Windmill (Now Part of Hempnall Mill Centre) 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 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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