Windmill is a Grade II* listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Windmill.
Windmill
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-gargoyle-moth
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Windmill, School Lane, Bardwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 941 738
- Coordinates
- 52.32802, 0.84715
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a tower mill located in Bardwell on School Lane, dating from around 1830, with a beam in the cap frame that is dated 1823. It is currently under restoration. The mill features a ground floor and three upper floors, constructed of tarred red brick with a slight convex batter. The roof is a metal-clad beehive style, topped with a finial that was fitted over the original cap frame in 1979. The sails and fantail assembly are missing. The machinery inside is largely intact, including a cast iron windshaft, wooden brakewheel, cast iron wallower, wooden upright shaft, spurwheel, and crownwheel. Previously, the machinery was driven by an engine through an underground drive from the adjacent granary, and there were two pairs of over-driven millstones.
Local climate
Windmill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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