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Monument details

HER Number:TR 15 NE 658
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:QUERNS WINDMILL

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction period 1816. A tower mill for the milling of cereals. Built in 1816 of rendered red brick with a weatherboarded cap. The mill ceased work circa 1895 and has now been converted into a house. During the Second World War it was used as a Home Guard observation post.

Grid Reference:TR 1608 5779
Map Sheet:TR15NE
Parish:CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

  • WINDMILL (Post Medieval to Modern - 1816 AD to 2050 AD)
  • CIVIL DEFENCE BUILDING (Modern - 1939 AD? to 1945 AD?)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1242174: QUERNS WINDMILL

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 ST MARTIN'S HILL
Querns Windmill TR 15 NE 10/164 3.12.69.
II
2. A Tower windmill built in 1816. Built of red brick, now cemented over with a weatherboarded cap. Windows have been altered. The sweeps have been removed.
Listing NGR: TR1590557707

Description from record TR 15 NE 897:
In early October 1939 tenders were invited to erect an air-raid siren at St Martin’s Hill, in place of the one on the ‘Mental Hospital’ (St Martin’s Hospital). This was fixed on the back of the ‘cowl’ of St Martin’s (or ‘Quern’s’) Mill, and, later, wiring was installed for the siren to be operated from the nearby warden’s post (Post ‘C/2’) on Babs Hill. Louvers were fixed around the siren in December to prevent it freezing-up. Late in 1940 heating equipment was supplied. In May 1942 the siren was removed to a pole adjoining the aforesaid warden’s post which had by then been renumbered ‘C/2/3’.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential :
Condition : poor
Date of visit : (1-3)

Recorded by NRIM, photographed. (4)

Historic England archive material: F002482 QUERNS WINDMILL, CANTERBURY File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.


<1> Peter Hill, Verbal Communication (Verbal communication). SKE14840.

<2> Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee, 01/01/39, Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee Minute Books 1 to 6 (Unpublished document). SKE14839.

<3> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<4> National Record of Industrial Monuments (NRIM): Index Cards (Index). SKE53912.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Verbal communication: Peter Hill. Verbal Communication.
<2>Unpublished document: Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee. 01/01/39. Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee Minute Books 1 to 6.
<3>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<4>Index: National Record of Industrial Monuments (NRIM): Index Cards.