Rottingdean Windmill at Ngr 365 024 is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. Smock mill.
Rottingdean Windmill at Ngr 365 024
- WRENN ID
- leaning-ashlar-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP: Chris Ward (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- Smock mill
- Address
- Rottingdean Windmill at Ngr 365 024, Nevill Road, the City of Brighton and Hove
- OS grid reference
- TQ 365 024
- Coordinates
- 50.80588, -0.06297
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rottingdean Windmill is a smock mill built in 1802 and has undergone significant restoration. It features a brick base that is tarred, with tarred weatherboarding above. The structure is octagonal and has a hooded cap. One entrance at the base has been blocked, while another appears to have been created. The shutters for the sweeps and the fantail are missing. The mill ceased operation in 1881 and has been restored and repaired multiple times, specifically in 1905-1906, 1935, 1966, 1975, and 1988. The artist William Nicholson used this windmill as inspiration for a silhouette design that became the imprint for Messrs Heinemann, publishers.
Local climate
Rottingdean Windmill at Ngr 365 024 receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% 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 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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