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Summary

Grade I listed building. Main construction periods 1866 to 1866. Stelling Minnis or Davison's Windmill, Grade I. It was built by T R Holman for George Goble in 1866 on the site of an older post mill. It was acquired by Henry Davison in 1878 on George Goble's death and is still owned by Davison's son. It is a smock mill of tarred weatherboarding. It has no round-house but a platform with wooden handrail above the ground floor. Beehive cap. Only two sweeps existed at the time of listing. The fantail is intact.

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• WINDMILL (Post Medieval - 1866 AD to 1866 AD)

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Description from record TR 14 NW 9 :
(TR 14624648) Windmill (dis) (NAT) (1) Stelling Minnis or Davison's Windmill, Grade I. This is the only windmill in Kent still working by wind. It was built by T R Holman for George Goble in 1866 on the site of an older post mill. It was acquired by Henry Davison in 1878 on George Goble's death and is still owned by Davison's son. It is a smock mill of tarred weatherboarding. It has no round-house but a platform with wooden handrail above the ground floor. Beehive cap. Only two sweeps existed at the time of listing. The fantail is intact. (For full description see list.) (2)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:

TR 14 NW STELLING MINNIS MILL LANE (east side)
1/179 Stelling Minnis or Davison's 29.12.66 Windmill
GV I
Windmill. 1866, by T.R. Holman for George Goble. Timber, clad with tarred weatherboarding. Tarred with brick base. Octagonal smock mill. Platform with wooden handrail, round base. Beehive cap. Four sweeps and fantail. Three-light window with shallow slanted hood about half way up south side, and another to north-east side. Boarded hatch and small cross window high up south-east side. Boarded door with lean-to hood, giving on to balcony on north side, and another to south-east side. Covered passage from ground to balcony to south. Interior not inspected. Acquired by Henry Davison in 1878 and still in possession of his son in 1950's. Now owned by Kent County Council.
Listing NGR: TR1452146680 (3)

Aditional bibliography (4)

<1> OS 1:10000 1977 (OS Card Reference). SKE48162.

<2> DOE(HHR) Dist of Elham RD Kent Sept 1960 50 (OS Card Reference). SKE40970.

<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.

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