Beacon Windmill is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1952. Windmill.
Beacon Windmill
- WRENN ID
- sombre-kitchen-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1952
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Beacon Windmill, Rolvenden Road, Benenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 821 324
- Coordinates
- 51.0621, 0.59775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beacon Windmill is a windmill built between 1790 and 1810, located on the northeast side of Rolvenden Road in Benenden. It is a smock mill, part of a pair, although the other mill has long since disappeared. The structure features a tapering octagonal base made of tarred brick. The upper part, which was originally weatherboarded, has been replaced with large planks. At the time of the survey, the platform at the first floor level, the boat-shaped cap, fantail, and sweeps were all missing. Inside, the windmill contains an intact spur wheel, upright shaft, and remains of the wallower. The brake wheel and windshaft were not in their original positions but were available for reinsertion.
Local climate
Beacon Windmill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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