Stones Mill is a Grade II listed building in the The Broads Authority local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1987. Windpump.
Stones Mill
- WRENN ID
- solitary-chalk-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- The Broads Authority
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1987
- Type
- Windpump
- Address
- Stones Mill, Freethorpe, Broadland
- OS grid reference
- TG 441 056
- Coordinates
- 52.59358, 1.60285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stones Mill is a derelict windpump from the mid-19th century, featuring a tarred brick tower and the remains of a weather-boarded cap frame. The circular tower stands four storeys high and has two window openings on both the ground and first floors, as well as two windows on the second floor and one on the cap floor, all with segmental brick arches. The cap frame includes sheers, sheer overlays, a head stock, a weatherbeam, and remnants of a tail beam. It also has truck wheels, centering wheels, a curb, track, and racks. There are remains of a fanstage with spur gear winding, which is rare for windpumps. The windpump is equipped with a cast iron windshaft that has a timber clamp arm brake wheel, along with remains of a brake collar and arm, and a cast iron scoopwheel shaft.
Local climate
Stones Mill receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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