Draper's Mill, Margate, Kent 🌍

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Draper's Mill: Smock mill function:Corn mill - restored

Margate, 1986 © Rob Cumming

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Entry in Mills Archive database - #2792 - Drapers Mill, Margate (has photos)

Draper’s Mill is the sole survivor of several windmills that once stood in and around Margate. The Grade II* listed smock mill was built in 1845 by John Holman of Canterbury, a well-known millwright. Octagonal in plan, it has a brick base and black-tarred weatherboarding and cap. Unlike many other mills, Draper’s is fortunate to have its original outbuildings still standing, including a workshop and a cart shed which houses a 19th century miller’s cart. The old bakery survives next to the mill as a private residence.

Muggeridge Collection photos

538381 - Margate Old Mill 3/4 Front Drapers' Mill Kent.
538382 - Margate. Lt. Drapers Base. Kent. William Burrell Muggeridge Standing Right Centre
538383 - Margate, Old Mill Draper'S Mill, Side, Kent.

[Old Mill Photos]

Draper's Mill, Margate - tentering governors [2024-05-12]

Draper's Mill, Margate - wire machine [2024-05-12]

Draper's Mill, Margate - stone nut [2024-05-12]

Draper's Mill, Margate - turning gear [2024-05-12]

Draper's Mill, Margate - great spur wheel [2024-05-12]

Draper's Mill, Margate - stone floor [2024-05-12]

Draper's Mill, Margate - looking into the cap [2024-05-12]

Draper's Mill, Margate - the brake wheel [2024-05-12]

Draper's Mill Margate [2024-05-12]

Draper's Mill, Margate - Crossley gas engine [2024-05-12]

Draper's Mill Margate - Crossley gas engine [2024-05-12]

Allotments on Dane Valley Road [2010-09-11] - HD

Sign for Drapers Mill [2008-03-22]

Drapers Mill [2008-03-22]

Drapers Mill on St Peter's Footpath [2008-03-22]

Cliftonville: Drapers Mill [2007-06-07]

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Listed Building, Grade II: DRAPER'S WINDMILL (listed 1973-02-22)

Associated charity DRAPERS WINDMILL TRUST CIO Website

Heritage Lottery Fund - £726000 : 20 Apr 1999 : Kent Windmills Restoration Programme

A Kent County Council responsibility: Drapers mill, Margate
BBC news item: Draper's Windmill in Margate receives heritage status upgrade 2025
Millennium Collection of Kent Mill Photographs: Margate smock mill

A Smartmolen equipped mill - dashboard

Wikipedia entry

News item: Historic England: places listed in 2025 (2/2/2026)

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A view of Drapers Mill, showing the smock mill without its sails

Drapers Mill, Margate, Thanet, Kent

7 Apr 1929 - Photograph (Nitrate Negative)

Draper's Windmill

St Peter's Footpath, Margate, Thanet, Kent, CT9 2SP

13 Mar 2005 - Photograph (Digital)

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