Remains of the Downs Windmill is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1949. Windmill.

Remains of the Downs Windmill

WRENN ID
second-solder-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 May 1949
Type
Windmill
Address
Remains of the Downs Windmill, Gunters Lane, Bexhill-On-Sea
OS grid reference
TQ 733 087
Coordinates
50.852, 0.46062
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The remains of the Downs Windmill consist of the lower portion of a brick roundhouse and the lower section of the central post, which stands about 20 feet tall and is supported by four diagonal wooden struts.

Local climate

Remains of the Downs Windmill receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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