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)


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