King's Head Mill

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|name = King's Mead Mill

|image = Battle windmill.jpg

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|caption = The mill in 2007

|name_of_mill = Kings Mead Mill
Caldbec Hill Mill

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|operator = Private

|built = 1805

|purpose = Corn mill

|type = Smock mill

|storeys = Four-storey smock

|base_storeys = Single-storey base

|smock_sides = Eight sides

|sail_number = Four sails

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|windshaft = Cast iron

|winding = Fantail

|fantail_blades = Six blades

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King's Mead Mill (also Battle Windmill or Caldbec Hill Mill) is a grade II listed{{NHLE| num=1278702| desc = THE OLD MILL, WHATLINGTON ROAD, BATTLE, ROTHER, EAST SUSSEX| access-date= 2008-05-09}} smock mill at Battle, Sussex, England, which has been converted to residential accommodation.

History

King's Mead Mill was built in 1805, replacing a post mill. The mill was working until the First World War and in 1924 was stripped of its machinery and house converted. The work was done by Neve's, the Heathfield millwrights.{{cite book | first = Martin| last = Brunnarius| year = 1979| title = The Windmills of Sussex| pages = 56–57, 189| publisher = Philimore| location = Chichester| isbn= 0-85033-345-8}}

Description

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King's Mead Mill is a four-storey smock mill on a single-storey brick base. It has a Kentish-style cap winded by a fantail. When working it had four shuttered sails carried on a cast-iron windshaft, driving three pairs of millstones. The current windshaft is a dummy, added when the mill was converted. The original windshaft is displayed at Polegate windmill.

Millers

William Neve 1805 - 1839
Porter 1839 - 1860
Henry Harmer
1911-1914 freeman
Jenner - WWI

References

External links

[http://www.windmillworld.com/millid/2699.htm Windmill World] Page on Battle Windmill.