Keston Windmill is a Grade I listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1955. A C18 Mill. 1 related planning application.
Keston Windmill
- WRENN ID
- shifting-newel-violet
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Bromley and Biggin Hill MP: Peter Fortune (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1955
- Type
- Mill
- Period
- C18
- Address
- Keston Windmill, Heathfield Road, BR2 6BG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 415 640
- Coordinates
- 51.3577, 0.03153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keston Windmill is a post mill, constructed in 1716. It is a roundhouse built of tarred brick, with tarred weatherboarding above. The shutters for the sweeps and fantail are no longer present. The original machinery remains in situ and is in a good state of preservation.
Local climate
Keston Windmill 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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