Thorpeness Mill is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Windmill.
Thorpeness Mill
- WRENN ID
- quiet-string-mist
- 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
- Thorpeness Mill, Aldringham Cum Thorpe
- OS grid reference
- TM 468 598
- Coordinates
- 52.18153, 1.60895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thorpeness Mill is a post windmill dating from the early 19th century. It was relocated from Mill Lane in Aldringham to its current site in 1922-1923 and converted from a corn mill to a water pump. The mill was restored to working order in 1977. It features a timber-framed and weatherboarded body set on a square base with pantiles. The mill has four patent sails and a fantail. The internal machinery is intact, including a reciprocating drive that operates the pump rod, which runs through the center of the main post to a pump located in the well below.
Local climate
Thorpeness 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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