Windmill at Ss 491103 is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Windmill.
Windmill at Ss 491103
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-attic-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Windmill at Ss 491103, Petrockstow
- OS grid reference
- SS 490 102
- Coordinates
- 50.87237, -4.1461
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The windmill at Petrockstowe, dating from the 18th century, is currently derelict and roofless. There was a date stone inscribed "F.B. 1756," but this was not visible during the inspection in 1987. The structure features squared stone rubble walls that taper, with a circular plan. There is evidence of two doorways, although only the northeast doorway is definitely original. This doorway has a heavy wooden lintel on the inside, and the stonework on the outside suggests it was originally arched. The walls rise to approximately 20 to 25 feet high and include two window openings positioned fairly high up. The windmill was previously used for pumping water to Heanton Satchville in the nearby parish of Huish, for which a pipeline still exists.
Local climate
Windmill at Ss 491103 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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