Oare Windmill

Oare Windmill
The house converted mill
Origin
Grid reference	TR 009 625
Year built	Late eighteenth or early nineteenth century
Information
Purpose	Corn mill
Type	Tower mill
Storeys	Five storeys
Number of sails	Four
Type of sails	Patent sails
Windshaft	Cast iron
Winding	Fantail
Number of pairs of millstones	Four pairs

Oare Mill is a Grade II* listed^[1] house converted Tower mill in Oare, Kent, England that was built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.

History

Oare mill was built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. It was marked on the 1819-42 Ordnance Survey map and Greenwood's map of 1821. The mill was working until June 1919. There was a steam engine, the boiler of which once exploded and damaged the Mill Cottages and Windmill Inn.^[2] Photographs show that the cap was still on the mill in 1952, but the roof had gone by 1963. In that year the derelict mill was converted into a house, retaining some machinery. A new domed polygonal roof fitted to replace the original cap.^[3]

Description

For a description of the machinery, see Mill machinery.

Oare Mill is a five-storey tower mill with a stage at first-floor level. It formerly had four single patent sails carried on a cast-iron windshaft,^[4] and a Kentish-style cap.^[2] The cap was the largest on any mill in Kent, measuring 17 feet (5.18 m) by 14 feet (4.27 m) in plan and 9 feet 9 inches (2.97 m) high.^[3] The mill was winded by a fantail. It drove four pairs of millstones^[2] overdrift.^[3] The wallower remains, mounted at the top of the Upright Shaft, which is wooden and 18 inches (460 mm) square. The Great Spur Wheel also remains.^[3]

Millers

Elliott - 1819
Thomas K Hope
Robert Shrubsole
Kennett 1841
F Inge
H W Elliott 1862
Thomas K Hope 1878
B Filmer
Herbert Filmer 1882 - 1886
F Ralph 1891
Herbert Filmer Sep 1917 - Jun 1919

References for above:-^[2]^[3]^[5]

References

↑ "OARE WINDMILL, OARE ROAD (east side), FAVERSHAM, SWALE, KENT". English Heritage. Retrieved 2008-04-18.
1 2 3 4 Coles Finch, William (1933). Watermills and Windmills. London: C W Daniel Company. pp. 253–54.
1 2 3 4 5 West, Jenny (1973). The Windmills of Kent. London: Charles Skilton Ltd. pp. 61–62. ISBN 0-284-98534-1.
↑ Photo dated 1940 by D W Muggeridge in the care of the Mills Archive Trust shows the windshaft to be cast iron
↑ "Directory of Kent Mill People". The Mills Archive Trust. Retrieved 2008-04-18.

External links

Windmill World page on the mill.

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Coordinates: 51°19′35″N 0°52′57″E / 51.32639°N 0.88250°E / 51.32639; 0.88250

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