Rolvenden windmill, Kent 🌍


Rolvenden #2717

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Rolvenden, 8th April 2007 © Rob Cumming
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Entry in Mills Archive database - #2717 - Post mill, Rolvenden

[English Heritage]

Muggeridge Collection photos

Fields South of Rolvenden Windmill [2020-03-23] - HD

Oast House Archive

Benenden Road and Rolvenden Windmill [2020-02-06] - HD

Oast House Archive

Rolvenden Windmill [2020-02-06] - HD

Oast House Archive

Rolvenden Windmill [2012-03-22]

Robin Webster

Rolvenden Windmill [2011-04-13]

N Chadwick

Rolvenden Windmill [2011-04-13]

N Chadwick

Rolvenden Windmill [2011-04-13]

N Chadwick

Rolvenden Windmill and Mill House Farm [2011-04-13]

N Chadwick

Rolvenden Windmill [2011-04-13]

N Chadwick

Rolvenden Windmill, Benenden Road, Rolvenden, Kent [2010-05-23] - HD

Oast House Archive

Rolvenden Windmill [2010-01-14] - HD

David Anstiss

Rolvenden Windmill, Benenden Road, Rolvenden, Kent [2008-07-28]

Oast House Archive

Rolvenden Windmill and Granary [2008-07-04]

Michael Roots

Rolvenden Windmill [2008-07-04]

Michael Roots

Rolvenden mill from Sandhurst Lane [2008-05-03]

Nick Smith

Rolvenden Mill [2003-05-27]

Rog Frost

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Listed Building, Grade II*: ROLVENDEN WINDMILL (listed 1962-08-16)

Associated charity #293203 - Rolvenden Windmill Trust

[Waymarking]

Details from the English Windmills Photographic Register by Guy Blythman
post mill
Photos: (1) Coles Finch (a) disused with 2 sails and roundhouse (b) derelict with 2 sails and roundhouse missing (2) Batten (a) derelict with 2 sails and roundhouse missing (b) view of exposed trestle (3) West (a) as preserved (4) de Little (a) stone nut (b) as preserved (5) NMR (a) derelict with 2 sails and no roundhouse (b) derelict with 2 sails and no roundhouse, 1929 (c) derelict with 2 sails and no roundhouse, February 1932 (a-b) derelict with 2 sails and no roundhouse, April 1934 (c) view of exposed trestle, April 1934 (d-e) derelict with 2 sails and temporary wooden roundhouse, August 1935 (6) CKS (a) disused with 2 sails, as CF (b) derelict with 2 sails, as Batten (c) derelict with 2 sails and wooden roundhouse still on (d-g) derelict with 2 sails (h) preserved, as West (i) preserved, September 1962 (j) as preserved (k) as preserved, middle distance (7) Turpin (WIK) (a-b) as preserved (8) UOK (DC) (a) close-up of exposed trestle, April 1934 (b) derelict with 2 sails and wooden roundhouse, August 1935 (c-d) disused with 2 sails and roundhouse still on (not wooden replacement) (e-k) derelict with 2 sails and exposed trestle (l) newspaper cutting, 17th Sept 1956: mill in course of repair with sails, roof and most of weatherboarding off (m-n) Kentish Express 21st September 1956: in skeleton condition for repairs (o) Kentish Express 21st November 1956: new sails already on, new roundhouse built, framing still largely exposed but some weatherboards fitted (p) in skeleton condition for repairs (q) under restoration: man sawing a timber beside the exposed trestle (r) newly restored, with boarding not yet painted (newspaper cutting 8th March 1957) (s) as preserved, 1950s (t-u) as preserved, middle distance, 1965? (v) Kentish Express 20th December 1974: preserved with sails missing (w) Kentish Express 20th June 1975: new sails being fitted (x-z) as preserved (aa) Kentish Express 13th Sept 1984; under repair, with sails down to stocks and scaffolding up (ab+) DC also has various newspaper and magazine cuttings (9) UOK (MC) (a) derelict with 2 sails and no roundhouse, August 1931 (b) derelict with 2 sails and wooden roundhouse (c) derelict with 2 sails, March 1934 (d-e) derelict with 2 sails, August 1934 (f) derelict with 2 sails, August 1935 (g) derelict with 2 sails, August 1936

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Rolvenden Windmill
Benenden Road, Rolvenden, Ashford, Kent, TN17 4PF
18 Feb 2005 - Photograph (Digital)
From the Images of England project
A view of Rolvenden Mill, showing the post mill with two damaged sails
Rolvenden Mill, Benenden Road, Rolvenden, Ashford, Kent
Aug 1932 - Photograph (Nitrate Negative)
International Mill Database Entry
name Rolvenden Windmill
id 5470
description Well preserved post mill with a single storey brick roundhouse and tailpole winding, dating back to c1580
drive power recent windmill
drive type recent sails
mill type post mill
special construction roundhouse
function type grain mill
condition type technique
map location 51.053745,0.621425
country United Kingdom
state England
county Kent
municipality Cranbrook
city Rolvenden
zip TN17 4PF
street Benenden Road
logo detail windmill
sails cloth
luffing tailpole
picture 137459
photographer name Willem van Bergen
Website link Wikipedia
picture name GB-RolvendenKent_01_ID5470_WillemVanBergen_1975.JPG
picture url https://milldatabase.org/image/137459/download


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