Chailey Windmill, New Heritage, Heritage Crafts School is a Grade II listed building in the Lewes local planning authority area, England. Windmill.
Chailey Windmill, New Heritage, Heritage Crafts School
- WRENN ID
- stark-screen-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lewes
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Windmill
- OS grid reference
- TQ 387 213
- Coordinates
- 50.97509, -0.02521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chailey Windmill, also known as Founders Hill, is a smock mill that was originally built in 1830 and re-erected on its current site in 1864. The mill was restored in 1933 after suffering damage from a severe gale in 1928. It features an octagonal roundhouse made of tarred brick, with a platform above and weatherboarding on the upper section. The mill has a boat-shaped cap and sweeps that do not have shutters. The fantail is intact, but there is no machinery inside.
Local climate
Chailey Windmill, New Heritage, Heritage Crafts School receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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