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Truncated tower remains
The surviving windmill fabric is recorded as a truncated bare tower.
Site overview
Keys Green Mill at Kippings Cross is a former tower corn mill near Pembury. The mill was built by 1843 and worked until about 1916, when it was tail-winded and lost its cap and sails. Later photographs record the tower after the loss of the cap, and the mill was largely demolished around 1957, leaving a two-storey stump.
The surviving structure is recorded by specialist windmill sources as a truncated bare tower. It stands as a reduced physical survival of a nineteenth-century Kentish tower mill in the Kippings Cross landscape.
Map
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History
Keys Green Mill at Kippings Cross was a tower corn mill near Pembury. It is recorded in the Kent windmill lists as a tower mill built by 1843. The mill worked through the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century as part of the rural milling landscape around Kippings Cross and Keys Green.
The key recorded event in the mill's working life came around 1916, when it was tail-winded and the cap and sails were blown off. Later photographic records show the tower without cap or sails, and archive images taken in the 1930s document the surviving tower form after the end of full wind-powered operation. The mill was largely demolished around 1957, leaving a reduced two-storey stump. The surviving structure is identified by windmill records as a truncated bare tower.
Although no longer complete, Keys Green Mill remains a visible remnant of a nineteenth-century tower corn mill. Its survival is modest, but the two-storey tower preserves the location, footprint, and lower fabric of the former Kippings Cross windmill.
Timeline
1843
Tower mill recorded
Keys Green Mill at Kippings Cross is recorded as a tower mill by 1843.
1916
Mill tail-winded
The mill worked until about 1916, when it was tail-winded and lost its cap and sails.
1934
Tower photographed
A 1934 photograph recorded the tower mill at Kippings Cross after the loss of its cap and sails.
1957
Mill reduced to stump
The mill was largely demolished around 1957, leaving a two-storey stump.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive catalogue record
Archives Hub record: Keys Green Mill, Kippings Cross
Kent photographic archive record
Pembury History windmills page
List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive catalogue record
Archives Hub record: Keys Green Mill, Kippings Cross
Kent photographic archive record
Pembury History windmills page