Shorne windmill, Kent

Shorne #2690

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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.

Shorne, 1986 © Rob Cumming

Ivy covered, ruined remains of the building that was constructed incorporating the remains of Shorne post mill. The mill part roughly corresponds to the left end of the building, as far as the ivy extends. 19/4/26
© Mark Berry

External corner of the building that was constructed incorporating the remains of Shorne post mill, showing one of the external buttresses which shows where the end of the quarterbar came to. 19/4/26
© Mark Berry

40in diameter millstone built into the now ruined building that incorporated the remains of Shorne post mill. 19/4/26
© Mark Berry

Shorne post mill, as an observatory, c1900
published as a postcard by Kent County Council

Entry in Mills Archive database - #2690 - Post mill, Shorne

Muggeridge Collection photos

538476 - Shorne. 3/4-Rear. Obl. Kent.
538477 - Shorne. 3/4-Front. Kent.

Millennium Collection of Kent Mill Photographs: Shorne post mill
Millennium Collection of Kent Mill Photographs: Shorne post mill
Millennium Collection of Kent Mill Photographs: Shorne post mill
Illustrations from English Windmills by I M Batten (1930), The Architectural Press for The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings EWv1_Shorne.jpg
Illustrations from Watermills and Windmills, William Coles Finch (1933), London, C W Daniel Company WW_Shorne.jpg

Details from the English Windmills Photographic Register by Guy Blythman

post mill

Photos: (1) Coles Finch (a) as observatory without sails or windshaft (2) Batten (a) as observatory without sails or windshaft (3) NMR (a) as observatory without sails or windshaft (b) ditto, August 1932 (4) Hiscock and Grierson (a) w/o (distant view), c1870 (b) as observatory, with platform on roof, mid-distance, c1910 (5) A C Allen, "Shorne: The History Of A Kentish Village", Meresborough Books 1987 (a) w/o, c1880 (date possibly wrong, see Coles Finch) (b) as observatory, with platform on roof (c) as observatory without sails or windshaft (6) UOK (MC) (a-b) as observatory without sails or windshaft, April 1940

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