The White Windmill is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1950. Smock windmill. 1 related planning application.
The White Windmill
- WRENN ID
- ancient-lead-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1950
- Type
- Smock windmill
- Address
- The White Windmill, Ash Road, Sandwich, CT13 9JB
- OS grid reference
- TR 322 586
- Coordinates
- 51.27952, 1.32817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Windmill is a smock-type windmill, with its date of construction not known. It features a roundhouse made of brick, surrounded by a wooden partition wall and a platform above. The rest of the mill is covered in white weatherboarding. It has a beehive cap, four restored shutters that are intact, and an intact fantail.
Local climate
The White 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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