Empacombe Windmill is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1968. A C18 Windmill.
Empacombe Windmill
- WRENN ID
- silent-crypt-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1968
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Empacombe Windmill, Maker-With-Rame
- OS grid reference
- SX 444 528
- Coordinates
- 50.35489, -4.18757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Empacombe Windmill is a tower built in the 18th century, likely reusing a late 16th or early 17th century doorway and window frames. Constructed from red sandstone and slate rubble, with some parts rendered, the roof is missing. The circular tower stands three storeys high. The ground floor features opposing doors with flat heads and relieving arches above, framed by moulded granite architraves. There are two windows on both the first and second floors, each with hollow chamfered surrounds. The interior shows signs of former floors and stairs, which have now been removed. The tower serves as a prominent landmark in the area.
Local climate
Empacombe Windmill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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