Hildenborough Old Mill House Windmill Remains Hildenborough · Kent · England

The windmill remains at the Old Mill House on Mill Lane, Hildenborough, are the surviving lower fabric of an early nineteenth-century windmill. The listed description gives a date of 1812 and describes the present remains as a brick shell in English bond handmade brick with some blue headers. The plan is octagonal and roofless, with a surviving segmental-arched doorway, two loft doorways, and three unglazed windows with segmental-arched heads.

The structure was once more complete. The 1952 list description recorded weatherboarded upper parts, a revolving pivoted head, intact sail arms, and the remains of a wooden platform around the base. Hildenborough local history identifies the site as the mill at Watts Cross and records that, although it was no longer a working mill after 1910, its mechanism was retained in good working order until the 1960s. The mill was then struck by lightning and damaged beyond economical repair.

The building was first listed in 1954. The surviving fabric now represents the roofless lower shell of a former windmill rather than a complete mill, but it remains a protected and visible survival of Hildenborough's wind-powered milling history.