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The Stocks Windmill
Hob Uid: 419284
Location : Kent Ashford Wittersham
Grid Ref : TQ9130027300
Summary : A post windmill with four sails, built circa 1781. The roundhouse is now used as a garden store.
More information : (TQ 91302730) Windmill (NAT) (disused) (1) TQ 91302730. Post mill, good condition. (2) 5272. The Stocks Windmill, Stocks Road, Wittersham. TQ 92 NW 13/442 4.6.52 Grade 2* The centre post inside the Mill has the date 1781 and the initials R Vcarved on it. Post type. Roundhouse of tarred brick with sloping wooden roof covered with sheets of metal. Above weatherboarding. Only 2 sweeps remain. Small wooden balcony to the top floor on the south-east side. Fantail missing. Interior in good condition. (3) TQ 913273, Stocks Mill, a post mill with roundhouse is the tallest post mill in Kent and has four sweeps with spring sails. The round house is now a garden store, but carved on the centrepost are the dates 1781, 1785 and 1790. In good repair. (4) The Stocks Mill, one of only four post-mills to remain in Kent, is dated 1781 on the massive centre post (5). This is believed to be thedate of erection as it is certain a mill stood here in 1792. Fitted with four spring sweeps (see illus card) it continued to work until the early 1900s. Since then it has been well maintained by various owners. Four new sweeps fitted in 1958 with money raised by a local Windmill Preservation Committee and assistance from Kent Council. One middlingbroke in a storm in 1968, but this was repaired. (5,6,7,8) Additional reference (9).

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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Built c 1781
Monument End Date : 1791
Monument Start Date : 1771
Monument Type : Post Mill, Windmill
Evidence : Documentary Evidence

Monument Period Name : 20th Century
Display Date : Change of use
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Monument Type : Storehouse
Evidence : Extant Building

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External Cross Reference Source : Listed Building List Entry Legacy Uid
External Cross Reference Number : 180485
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External Cross Reference Source : NBR Index Number
External Cross Reference Number : 2607
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : TQ 92 NW 8
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1963-02-27
End Date : 1963-02-27

Associated Activities :
Activity type : ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY
Start Date : 2002-01-01
End Date : 2002-12-31

Historic England Research Records

The Stocks Windmill