1200
Early windmill recorded
A windmill is recorded at Chislet by about 1200.
Site overview
Chislet Mill was a smock corn mill at Chislet. The site has a long windmill association, with a windmill recorded in the parish by about 1200 and a smock mill recorded from 1744. The later smock mill was destroyed by fire on 15 September 2005.
A new residential mock mill was built on the same plot in 2011 or 2012. The present structure is therefore not the original working windmill, but it preserves the visible windmill form on the historic Chislet mill site.
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History
Chislet Mill was a smock corn mill at Chislet. The parish has one of the earlier recorded windmill histories in Kent, with a windmill noted at Chislet by about 1200. The later recorded smock mill was established by 1744 and formed part of the village's wind-powered corn-milling landscape.
The working mill no longer survives. The smock mill was destroyed by fire on 15 September 2005, removing the historic windmill structure from the site. A new residential mock mill was built on the same plot a few years later, recorded in windmill lists as built in 2011 or 2012. The modern building is windmill-inspired domestic architecture rather than a surviving eighteenth-century working smock mill.
The site remains important as the location of Chislet's former smock corn mill. Its present form records a later residential reconstruction on a historic windmill plot, after the loss of the original mill by fire.
Timeline
1744
Smock mill recorded
Chislet Mill is recorded as a smock mill by 1744.
2005
Historic mill destroyed by fire
The smock mill was destroyed by fire on 15 September 2005.
2011–2012
Residential mock mill built
A new residential mock mill was built on the same plot of land.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Windmill World Kent windmills list
List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive catalogue references
Windmill World Kent windmills list
List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive catalogue references