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Post mill function:Corn mill - ivy clad ruinous building which was constructed from the post mill, though hardly recognisable now
The trestle and buck of the post mill were built into the end of a now fire damaged and ruinous larger building, which once had an observation platform on the roof of the buck. It's possible to see where the ends of the crosstrees were by the presence of 4 low concrete buttresses in the building's walls. There remain collapsed baulks of timber covered by ivy, that may include parts of the trestle, post and general buck framing, but the most visible evidence of this being a former mill is a (probably peak) 40in millstone built into the still standing brick wall of the extended building. From older photos, the other stone of the pair may be built into the facing wall, but was not apparent through the current foliage. There are also some small fragments of a french burr stone reused as building material in the same wall. Metal artifacts which have been found in the garden include a shutter crank, from when the mill had a pair of shuttered sails.
Bygone Kent vol 31 no 1 Jan/Feb 2010 contains a history of Shorne windmill, written by Mick Underhill-rose.
Entry in Mills Archive database - #2690 - Post mill, Shorne
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