Shirley Windmill is a Grade II listed building in the Croydon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1951. Windmill.
Shirley Windmill
- WRENN ID
- lunar-window-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon East MP: Natasha Irons (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1951
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Shirley Windmill, Upper Shirley Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 354 651
- Coordinates
- 51.36888, -0.05485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shirley Windmill is a 19th-century, five-storey circular brick tower mill located on Upper Shirley Road. Built in 1854, it features four sweeps, a cap, and a fantail. The lower windows of the mill have been blocked, and it is no longer operational. During a restoration in 1927, parts of the machinery were found to date back to an earlier mill, with a date of 1740 identified. The windmill was last restored in the 1960s and is likely the last large windmill constructed in Surrey.
Local climate
Shirley 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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