Rolvenden Post Mill

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An old picture postcard of the Old Mill, granary buildings, and council housing, at Rolvenden, c.1918.

Rolvenden Mill is a post mill built on a single storey brick roundhouse. A windmill is believed have stood on this spot from at least 1596 but the current mill probably dates back to 1772. It probably went out of commercial use in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Following an extended period of disuse and the mill falling into disrepair it was fully restored in 1955.

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An old archive photograph of Rolvenden windmill in Kent as it looked in the late 1910s.

The mill now has two pairs of millstones, in a head and tail arrangement. It is Grade II listed.

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A recent photograph of Rolvenden Windmill in Kent. Also visible is the former granary, now a house.

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