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Base used as store
The surviving mill base remained after demolition and was used as a store.
Site overview
Boundgate Mill was a smock corn mill at Badlesmere. It is recorded at TR 010 532 and was built in 1872, the same year in which Regent's Place Mill at Ashford was moved to Badlesmere. The mill worked until 1921.
It was demolished in 1938, but the base survived and was used as a store. Modern windmill records describe the survival as a truncated base. The site is therefore a reduced physical survival of a nineteenth-century Kent smock mill, retaining the lower structure after the loss of the smock body, cap, sweeps, and working machinery.
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History
Boundgate Mill at Badlesmere was a smock mill recorded at TR 010 532. It was built in 1872 and is associated with the movement of Regent's Place Mill from Ashford to Badlesmere in the same year. The mill then worked as part of Badlesmere's late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century milling landscape.
The mill continued working until 1921. After closure it survived for a further period before being demolished in 1938. Its base remained and was later used as a store. Specialist windmill records describe the present survival as a truncated smock mill base. The known history is therefore centred on a clearly recorded construction date, working period, demolition date, and surviving lower fabric. Boundgate Mill no longer survives as a complete windmill, but its base marks the site and preserves part of the fabric of the former Badlesmere smock mill.
Timeline
1872
Smock mill built
Boundgate Mill was built at Badlesmere as a smock mill.
1921
Working use ended
Boundgate Mill worked until 1921.
1938
Mill demolished
The smock mill was demolished in 1938.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
List of windmills in Kent
Jenny West, The Windmills of Kent
Coles Finch, Watermills and Windmills
List of windmills in Kent
Jenny West, The Windmills of Kent
Coles Finch, Watermills and Windmills