St Margaret's Bay Windmill is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1966. Windmill. 2 related planning applications.
St Margaret's Bay Windmill
- WRENN ID
- vacant-hearth-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1966
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- St Margaret's Bay Windmill, the Front, St. Margaret's at Cliffe
- OS grid reference
- TR 362 435
- Coordinates
- 51.14211, 1.37641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Margaret's Bay Windmill is a windmill built in 1929 for Sir William Beardswell by the Holman Brothers of Canterbury. It is timber framed and clad with weather boarding, designed in a smock type with an octagonal shape and a boat-shaped cap. The windmill features four sweeps without shutters, and the winding gear is intact. It has a roundhouse with two balconies. The mill was constructed to provide electricity for the attached house, which was built at the same time. This house is a single storey with an attic, also weather boarded, and has a plain tiled roof with irregular wooden casements. St Margaret's Bay Windmill is noted as the last windmill built in Kent.
Local climate
St Margaret's Bay Windmill receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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