Borstal Hill Windmill is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1951. Windmill, restaurant.
Borstal Hill Windmill
- WRENN ID
- tilted-flint-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1951
- Type
- Windmill, restaurant
- OS grid reference
- TR 105 651
- Coordinates
- 51.34628, 1.02219
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Borstal Hill Windmill is a Grade II listed smock windmill built by Leonard Lawes in 1814. It features a roundhouse design and stands two storeys tall, constructed of tarred brick on the west side, with a platform and wooden railing above. The upper section is clad in tarred weatherboarding. The shafts of the sweeps are intact, although the shutters are missing, and it has a hooded cap. The windmill is currently used as a restaurant and is connected to a modern house that has been built on the south-west side. Some modern windows have been added to the mill.
Local climate
Borstal Hill Windmill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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