Oare Windmill Oare · Kent · England

Oare Windmill is a five-storey tower corn mill on Oare Road. It was built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century and was already marked on Greenwood's map of 1821 and on the 1819–42 Ordnance Survey map. The mill served the corn-milling needs of Oare and the Faversham area and stood with associated buildings, including Mill Cottage and The Mill House.

The tower was built of red brick and originally carried a Kentish-style cap, four single patent sails, a cast-iron windshaft, and a fantail. It had a stage at first-floor level and drove four pairs of millstones overdrift. The cap was notably large, measuring about 17 feet by 14 feet in plan and more than 9 feet high. The wallower remains mounted at the top of the wooden upright shaft, and the great spur wheel also survives.

The mill worked until June 1919. A steam engine was used as auxiliary power, and its boiler once exploded, damaging nearby Mill Cottages and the Windmill Inn. The cap was still present in 1952, but by 1963 the roof had gone. In that year the derelict tower was converted into a house, retaining some machinery and replacing the original cap with a new domed polygonal roof. Oare Windmill was listed at Grade II in 1950 and remains a converted but substantial survival of Kent tower-mill construction.