Edenbridge Windmill
{{Short description|Tower mill in Edenbridge, Kent, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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|caption = Postcard,1917
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|built = 1815
|purpose = Corn mill
|type = Tower mill
|storeys = Five storeys
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Edenbridge Mill is a Grade II listed{{NHLE| num= 1258115| desc = STUMP OF THE OLD WINDMILL, HIGH STREET (west side) EDENBRIDGE, SEVENOAKS, KENT| access-date= 2008-04-16}} house converted tower mill in Edenbridge, Kent, England. It is on the west side of Mill Hill, just north of the hospital.
History
Edenbridge Mill was built in 1815.{{cite book | first=Rob |last=Cumming |title=The Windmills of North West Kent and Kentish London (and the men who built them) |publisher=Stenlake Publishing |location=Catrine |year=2014 |isbn=9781840336634 |page=47}} A mill was marked on the 1858–72 and 1903-10 Ordnance Survey maps.{{cite book | first = William| last = Coles Finch| author-link=William Coles Finch| year = 1933| title = Watermills and Windmills| pages = 199| publisher = C W Daniel Company| location = London}} There is a stone inscribed 1812 A Friend. There is a red brick just above the large window on the first floor with 1812 also inscribed
William Ashby, the Westerham millwright worked on the mill in October 1825, fitting a new neck bearing of the windshaft, and did some repairs to the sails in January 1826. The cap was removed in 1937 and replaced by a flat roof.{{cite book | first = Jenny| last = West| year = 1973| title = The Windmills of Kent| pages = 41–44| publisher = Charles Skilton Ltd.| location = London| isbn = 0-284-98534-1}}
Description
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Edenbridge Mill is a five-storey brick tower mill with a domed cap. It had four sails carried on a cast iron windshaft. The mill was winded by a fantail. The mill retains the Wallower, upright shaft and iron Great Spur Wheel, which drove the millstones overdrift. Old photographs show that there was a stage at the first floor level.
The property was sold in 1990 to a developer who over a nine-year period converted the building to residential use, making only minor changes to the outside. Two small windows, both on the third floor, were made larger. The air raid shelter was removed. The external staircase shown in earlier photographs was replaced with a gradient staircase that was compliant with building regulations.{{citation needed|date=May 2011}}
Millers
- Edward Bridger 1825 - 1839
- H Sisley 1844
- James Mellish 1845 - 1849
- Stanford - 1854
- Moses Brooks 1864 - 1874
- James Mellish & Son - 1886
References for above:-{{cite web|url=http://www.millarchive.com/kent/millpeople/Kent%20Mill%20People.htm |publisher=The Mills Archive Trust |title=Directory of Kent Mill People |access-date=2008-04-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416174906/http://www.millarchive.com/kent/millpeople/Kent%20Mill%20People.htm |archive-date=2009-04-16 }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.windmillworld.com/millid/2637.htm Windmill World page] on the mill.
{{Kent Windmills}}
Category:Grinding mills in the United Kingdom
Category:Tower mills in the United Kingdom
Category:Grade II listed buildings in Kent