Herne Windmill is a Grade I listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. A 1781 Windmill. 6 related planning applications.
Herne Windmill
- WRENN ID
- winding-finial-jet
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Herne Windmill, Mill Lane, Herne and Broomfield, CT6 7DR
- OS grid reference
- TR 185 664
- Coordinates
- 51.35541, 1.13696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Herne Windmill is a Grade I listed smock mill built in 1781. It features a tarred brick octagonal round-house with a platform that is missing its handrail. Above the round-house, there is tarred weatherboarding, and it has a hooded cap with an intact fantail. The sails are currently missing. Herne Windmill and No 88 form a group.
Local climate
Herne Windmill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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