Charing Windmill
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The converted mill.
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| Origin | |
| Mill name | Field Mill |
| Grid reference | TQ 957 503 |
| Year built | Early nineteenth century |
| Information | |
| Purpose | Corn milling |
| Type | Smock mill |
| Storeys | Three-storey smock |
| Base storeys | One storey |
| Smock sides | Eight-sided |
| Number of sails | Four |
| Type of sails | Two Common sails and two Spring sails |
| Windshaft | Cast iron |
| Winding | Fantail |
| Fantail blades | Six |
| Number of pairs of millstones | Three pairs |
| Other information | Was painted white when a working mill, tarred black since conversion to a house. |
Charing Windmill is a Grade II listed[1] house converted smock mill on Charing Hill in Kent in southeast England. It is sometimes known as Field Mill, but that name was also used by a watermill in Charing.
History
Charing Mill was built in the early nineteenth century. It was marked on the 1819-43 Ordnance Survey map and also on Greenwood's 1821 map of Kent. It was working until 1891, when the business was transferred to Field Watermill,[2] although two new common sails had been erected on the mill by Holman's of Canterbury the year before. The sails were removed in 1917 after being damaged in a gale.[3]
Description
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Charing Mill is a three-storey smock mill on a single-storey base. It has a Kentish-style cap. It had two Common sails and two Spring sails and was winded by a fantail.[3] The cast-iron windshaft carries a wooden Brake Wheel driving a wooden wallower, carried on a wooden upright shaft. The Wooden clasp arm Great Spur Wheel survives, but the three pairs of millstones have been removed.[2] The mill was originally painted white overall, but the body of the mill was creosoted in 1969.[4]
Millers
- Thomas Parks 1823 - 1827
- Richard Chapman Jennings 1839
- A Sidders
- S Andrews
- Robert Millgate 1878 - Charing Heath windmill?
- Pay 1878 - 1892 Field watermill?
- Pope 1878 - 1892 Field watermill?
- William Smith
- George Smith 1887
- Walter Hicks 1891
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See also
References
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External links
- Windmill World page on the mill.
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