New Mill is a Grade II listed smock mill in Northbourne

Northbourne

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, Kent

Kent

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, England

England

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  that was built in 1848 and which has been converted to residential accommodation.

History

New mill was built in 1848 by Messrs J J and T R Holman, the Canterbury

Canterbury

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 millwright

Millwright

A millwright is a craftsman or tradesman engaged with the construction and maintenance of machinery.Early millwrights were specialist carpenters who erected machines used in agriculture, food processing and processing lumber and paper...

s at a cost of £600. It was originally built with two pairs of millstone

Millstone

Millstones or mill stones are used in windmills and watermills, including tide mills, for grinding wheat or other grains.The type of stone most suitable for making millstones is a siliceous rock called burrstone , an open-textured, porous but tough, fine-grained sandstone, or a silicified,...

s, and some of the machinery was to be second hand. A 7 hp Robey & Co steam engine was added in 1886 at a cost of £210. and a third pair of millstones added in 1892. The mill was overhauled by Holman's in 1910, including two new cant (corner) posts and a new sail. In July 1915 two sails and the fantail

Windmill fantail

A Fantail is a small windmill mounted at right angles to the sails, at the rear of the windmill, and which turns the cap automatically to bring it into the wind. The fantail was patented in 1745 by Edmund Lee, a blacksmith working at Brockmill Forge near Wigan, England, and perfected on mills...

 were blown off. The mill was repaired in 1916 and from then on ran with only two sails. The steam engine was scrapped in 1947 but the mill was working by wind until 1949, when it was dismantled. After standing idle for a short time it was run by electric motor from 1951 to 1957. The mill was converted into a house in 1976 and the former engine shed is now used as bed and breakfast accommodation.

Description

New Mill is a four storey smock mill on a single storey single storey brick base. There is a stage at first floor level. It had four double Patent sails carried on a cast iron windshaft. The mill was winded by a fantail. It had three pairs of millstones. The only piece of machinery remaining is the windshaft, still in position on the cap frame.

Millers

• Richard Fuller 1848 - 1881
• Thomas M Fuller 1881 - 1902
• Ernest M Fuller 1902 - 1957
• Richard J Fuller 1930 - 1957

References for above:-

External links

• Windmill World page on the mill.