Willesborough Windmill is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Windmill. 1 related planning application.
Willesborough Windmill
- WRENN ID
- night-facade-foxglove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Windmill
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Willesborough Windmill, Hythe Road, TN24 0QG
- OS grid reference
- TR 031 421
- Coordinates
- 51.14241, 0.90256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willesborough Windmill was built in 1868 by John Hill, a millwright from Ashford. The structure features a rectangular brick base that stands two storeys high. Above this base is an octagonal smock mill made of white weatherboarding, which has a platform and railing surrounding it. The windmill includes sash windows with intact glazing bars and has a hooded cap. However, the fantail and some sweeps are partly missing. At the base of the windmill, there is a two-storey house that is tile hung and has a hipped slate roof, with two sash windows that also have intact glazing bars.
Local climate
Willesborough Windmill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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