Windmill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Former mill house.

Windmill Cottage

WRENN ID
ragged-barrel-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1975
Type
Former mill house
Address
Windmill Cottage, 25, Windmill Hill, Brixham
OS grid reference
SX 925 558
Coordinates
50.39234, -3.51302
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Windmill Cottage is a former mill house located in Lower Brixham, likely built around 1797. The building features solid rendered walls and a concrete tiled roof, with rendered chimneys on each end wall. It is two storeys high and three windows wide, with a blank space in the center of the ground storey that was probably intended for the original doorway. The windows are small-paned wood casements, with three lights and three panes per light on the ground storey, and four panes per light on the upper storey. The middle upper-storey window is unique, having only two lights with three panes per light. The base of a former windmill stands in its garden.

Local climate

Windmill Cottage receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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