Pakenham Windmill is a Grade II* listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. A Victorian Tower mill.
Pakenham Windmill
- WRENN ID
- standing-lead-foxglove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Tower mill
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Pakenham Windmill, Thieves Lane
- OS grid reference
- TL 930 694
- Coordinates
- 52.28894, 0.82977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pakenham Windmill is a tower mill built around 1820, with the earliest recorded date within the mill being 1835. It was restored to full working order in the 1950s. The structure has five floors and is made of red brick that has been tarred. It features a dome-shaped cap with a finial, four patent sails, and a fantail. During the restoration in the 1950s, a gallery was added to the cap. The mill contains two pairs of overdriven stones located on the second floor.
Local climate
Pakenham 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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