Sarre Windmill

Infobox Windmill
name = Sarre Windmill


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location_of_mill = TR 259 651
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operator = Hobbs
built = 1821
purpose = Corn mill
type = Smock mill
storeys = Three storey smock
base_storeys = Two storey base
roundhouse_storeys =
smock_sides = Eight sided
sail_number = Four
sail_type = Double Patent sails
windshaft = Cast iron
winding = Fantail
fantail_blades = Six bladed
auxpower = Steam engine 1861 - 1920
Gas engine 1920 - 1940
pairs_of_millstones= Two pairs
stone_size =
saw_type =
pump_type =
scoop_dia =
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other = The first windmill in Kent to have a steam engine as auxiliary power.

Sarre Windmill is a Grade II listedcite web| url= http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?pid=2&id=421289| publisher = English Heritage| title = SARRE MILL, CANTERBURY ROAD (south side), SARRE, THANET, KENT| accessdate= 2008-04-19] smock mill in Sarre, Kent, England that was built in 1820, and is now a commercially working windmill that has been restored and is open to the public.

History

"Sarre windmill" was built in 1820 by the Canterbury millwright John Holman. It was said to have been moved from Monkton, but it is more likely to have had some machinery from that mill included in its construction. It was marked on the 1819-43 Ordnance Survey map. Sarre mill was originally built with a single storey brick base, but in 1856 the base was raised to convert|14|ft|m|2 high, with an extra storey built under it. Sarre mill was the first windmill in Kent to have a steam engine installed as auxiliary power. This was added in 1861.cite web| url= http://www.sarremill.co.uk/history.htm| publisher = Sarre mill | title = Sarre Mill - a history| accessdate= 2008-04-19] The mill was worked by wind until 1920, when the sails were taken down, and installed on the Union Mill, Cranbrook and a gas engine was fitted. The mill worked for a few years longer powered by the gas engine, but had ceased milling by the early 1930s.cite book | first = William| last = Coles Finch| year = 1933| title = Watermills and Windmills| pages = p272| publisher = C W Daniel Company| location = London] . The mill was recommissioned in the late 1930s, again powered by the gas engine, before finally stopping in 1940 as the engine had been damaged by frost in the severe winter that year.cite journal | year = 1996| month = January| title = | journal = Bygone Kent | volume = Volume 17 Number 1 | pages = p29 - 33 | publisher = Meresborough Books | location = Rainham | issn = ] The mill was used as an observation post during the Second World War.cite book | first = Jenny| last = West| year = 1973| title = The Windmills of Kent| pages = p68-71| publisher = Charles Skilton Ltd.| location = London| id = SBN 284-98534-1] The mill remained semi-derelict until 1986, when restoration was started, being completed in 1991 The mill is now open to the public as well as being a mill working for trade.

Description

"Sarre windmill" is a three storey smock mill on a two storey brick base. It has four double patent sails carried on a cast iron windshaft. The mill is winded by a fantail. The Brake Wheel is a composite one, with iron arms and a wooden rim. This drives a cast iron Wallower. The Great Spur Wheel is also of cast iron. The mill drives two pairs of millstones, overdrift.

Millers

*Thomas Holman 1845 - 1862
*George Thomas Steddy 1878
*Ebenezer Wood 1880 - 1883
*Hogben
*Gambrill - 1940
*Malcolm Hobbs 1991 -
*Robert Hobbs 1991 -

References for above:-cite web| url= http://www.millarchive.com/kent/millpeople/Kent%20Mill%20People.htm| publisher = The Mills Archive Trust| title = Directory of Kent Mill People| accessdate= 2008-04-19]

References

External links

* [http://www.windmillworld.com/millid/2778.htm Windmill World page] on the mill.