Old Windmill is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1952. Windmill.
Old Windmill
- WRENN ID
- drifting-chalk-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1952
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Old Windmill, Elbury Lane, Broad Clyst
- OS grid reference
- SX 990 965
- Coordinates
- 50.75954, -3.43277
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Windmill is a windmill tower built in 1786 by Sam Flood, a baker. It features a round tower made of red sandstone, which is stuccoed, and has a slate conical roof. The cap and gear are missing. The structure has four floors, with the first two floors having once been used as a dwelling; there are two ground-floor windows and one first-floor window still visible. On the south side of the tower, there is a stone inscription that reads: 'Erected by Salo Flood, Baker, A.D.1786. Vive le Ingenie'. The windmill is part of a group with the former miller's cottage, now known as Windmill Cottage.
Local climate
Old Windmill receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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