Oare Windmill
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Oare Mill is a Grade II* listed house converted Tower mill
Tower mill
A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind....

 in Oare
Oare, Kent
Oare is a village and civil parish north of Faversham in southeast England. It is separated from Faversham by the Oare Creek. To the north of the village are the Oare Marshes, and the Harty Ferry which linked to Harty on the Isle of Sheppey. Kent Wildlife Trust manages a nature reserve that is an...

, Kent
Kent
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, England
England
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  that was built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.

History

Oare mill was built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. It was mark on the 1819-42 Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey , an executive agency and non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom, is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, producing maps of Great Britain , and one of the world's largest producers of maps.The name reflects its creation together with...

 map and Greenwood's map of 1821. The mill was working until June 1919. There was a steam engine, the boiler of which once exploded and damaged the Mill Cottages and Windmill Inn. Photographs show that the cap was still on the mill in 1952, but the roof had gone by 1963. In that year the derelict mill was converted into a house, retaining some machinery. A new domed polygonal roof fitted to replace the original cap.

Description

Oare Mill is a five storey tower mill with a stage at first floor level. It formerly had four single patent sails
Windmill sail
Windmills are powered by their sails. Sails are found in different designs, from primitive common sails to the advanced patent sails.-Jib sails:...

 carried on a cast iron windshaft, and a Kentish style cap. The cap was the largest on any mill in Kent, measuring 17 feet (5.18 m) by 14 feet (4.27 m) in plan and 9 in 9 in (2.97 m) high. The mill was winded by a 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...

. It drove four pairs of millstones overdrift. The wallower remains, mounted at the top of the Upright Shaft, which is woooden and 18 inches (457.2 mm) square. The Great Spur Wheel also remains.

Millers

  • Elliott - 1819
  • Thomas K Hope
  • Robert Shrubsole
  • Kennett 1841
  • F Inge
  • H W Elliott 1862
  • Thomas K Hope 1878
  • B Filmer
  • Herbert Filmer 1882 - 1886
  • F Ralph 1891
  • Herbert Filmer Sep 1917 - Jun 1919

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