Windmill on Westwood Marshes is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. A Late C18 Windmill.
Windmill on Westwood Marshes
- WRENN ID
- muted-pedestal-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Windmill on Westwood Marshes, Walberswick
- OS grid reference
- TM 486 736
- Coordinates
- 52.3049, 1.6462
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The windmill on Westwood Marshes is a late 18th-century tower mill that was formerly used for drainage and is now disused. Its external appearance was restored in the early 1950s after it was badly damaged by fire in 1960. The structure has a ground floor and two additional floors, built from red brick with a rendered band on the lower part, against which a wheel attached to the tailpole once ran. Although the boat-shaped cap and four common sails are now missing, remnants of the tailpole assembly can still be seen. The machinery includes a wooden upright shaft, crownwheel, pitwheel, and an external cast iron scoopwheel. This windmill is an important landscape feature and is one of only two remaining drainage mills on the east Suffolk marshes, the other being located at Reydon.
Local climate
Windmill on Westwood Marshes receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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