The Windmill is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. Windmill.
The Windmill
- WRENN ID
- western-doorway-hemlock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- The Windmill, Pitstone
- OS grid reference
- SP 945 156
- Coordinates
- 51.83173, -0.62984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Windmill is a post-mill built in 1627 and 1749, which underwent significant alterations and restoration in 1963. It features a circular base made of 19th-century whitewashed brick topped with a shallow conical roof covered in metal sheets. The structure has two doors, and the timber-framed and weatherboarded chamber above has a curved roof. It includes double board doors with a board hood supported by shaped brackets, as well as a small board door leading to the loft. On the sail side of the chamber, there is a central post with a moulded wooden bracket. The windmill is equipped with four sails, a tail pole with a wooden wheel, and a wide wooden step ladder. The internal machinery, which is likely from the 19th century, remains intact but has been restored.
Local climate
The Windmill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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