Ripple Windmill is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1963. A 18th century Windmill.
Ripple Windmill
- WRENN ID
- graven-merlon-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1963
- Type
- Windmill
- Period
- 18th century
- Address
- Ripple Windmill, Dover Road
- OS grid reference
- TR 361 490
- Coordinates
- 51.19169, 1.3787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ripple Windmill is a windmill dating from the late 18th century, which was rebuilt in 1807. It features weatherboarding on a tarred brick base and stands two storeys tall with a wooden smock above. The upper row of cogs on the smock remains, but the sweeps, cap, and fan are all missing. Access is provided by a boarded door that is recessed in an octagonal base platform built around the mill site. Originally constructed at Drellingore, near Hawkinge, it was re-erected in its current location in 1807. The windmill was used for milling until the 1930s and is now functioning as a television relay station.
Local climate
Ripple 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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