Paignton Windmill is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1951. Windmill. 2 related planning applications.
Paignton Windmill
- WRENN ID
- third-loft-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1951
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Paignton Windmill, Windmill Lane, TQ3 1AA
- OS grid reference
- SX 875 623
- Coordinates
- 50.45008, -3.58463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Paignton Windmill is a disused and partly ruinous windmill dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of purple limestone rubble with local red breccia dressings and is currently roofless. The windmill has a squat base that sharply tapers and consists of four storeys. The ground floor features one wide doorway on the side facing the lane, which has breccia voussoirs, and there is some internal evidence of a second doorway on the opposite side. Other openings on this level have breccia lintels or voussoirs. The first floor includes two opposed loading doors and two windows, while the second floor has four windows, and the third storey has two windows. Inside, some internal plaster remains, but the floors are missing.
Local climate
Paignton Windmill receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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- 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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