Post Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Windmill. 1 related planning application.
Post Mill
- WRENN ID
- gilded-truss-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Post Mill, Wingfield Road, Syleham
- OS grid reference
- TM 213 777
- Coordinates
- 52.35272, 1.24946
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Corn windmill, built in 1730 at Earsham Street and moved to its current location around 1823. The mill was damaged in a storm in October 1987. It features a roundhouse made of clay lump, which is plastered and tarred, topped with a boarded conical roof. Part of the timber-framed buck remains above the roundhouse. The roundhouse is circular and has a rectangular-plan buck, characteristic of an East Suffolk post mill. It is a two-storey roundhouse with a buck that was formerly three storeys high. The roundhouse has two boarded hatches with boarded doors below and a ladder leading to the buck, which was once turned by a six-bladed fantail that is now missing. Inside the roundhouse, there are brick piers and crosstrees on the bottom storey, a full-height stop-chamfered post with quarter bars to the buck, and two pairs of engine-driven millstones on a hursting, complete with tuns, horses, hoppers, and other equipment.
Local climate
Post Mill 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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