Kelsale Mill is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1984. Windmill.

Kelsale Mill

WRENN ID
salt-span-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 July 1984
Type
Windmill
Address
Kelsale Mill, Rosemary Lane, Kelsale Cum Carlton
OS grid reference
TM 381 647
Coordinates
52.22962, 1.48568
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kelsale Mill is a tower windmill built in 1856 by John Whitmore, a millwright from Wickham Market. The structure is made of brick and has six floors above the ground floor, with the lower two floors tarred and the upper floors whitewashed. Each quarter features small pane cast iron casement windows with segmental arches. The cap, sails, and internal machinery are missing, and the tower has a flat roof with a guard rail and a tall flagpole. Standing at 16.8 meters high, it is a prominent local landmark. There are remains of a steam mill attached to the east, although the top floor has been removed.

Local climate

Kelsale Mill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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