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Later extensions altered site
The later building was extended in several directions, making the extent of surviving windmill base unclear.
Site overview
Stone Hill Mill was a smock corn mill at Egerton. A smock mill near the church was moved to Stone Hill around 1818, establishing the later mill site. The mill was blown down on 2 December 1919.
Its base survived and was later incorporated into an isolated rectangular farm building. By the later twentieth century and early twenty-first century the building had been extended in several directions, making the extent of surviving windmill fabric unclear. The site remains a recorded survival of Egerton's wind-powered corn-milling history, though the visible mill form has largely been absorbed into later structures.
Map
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History
Stone Hill Mill was a smock corn mill at Egerton. The site originated when a smock mill near the church was moved to Stone Hill around 1818. It then operated as a wind-powered corn mill within the rural landscape around the village.
The mill was destroyed by wind damage on 2 December 1919, leaving the base. The surviving base continued as part of the site's later agricultural fabric. Up to the 1990s it was incorporated within an isolated rectangular farm building. Later extensions altered the building in several directions, and the amount of original windmill base remaining within the altered structure is now unclear.
Stone Hill Mill is therefore not a standing smock mill survival. Its significance rests on the recorded movement of the mill to Stone Hill, the survival of the base after the 1919 collapse, and the continued presence of windmill-derived fabric within later farm buildings at Egerton.
Timeline
1818
Smock mill moved to Stone Hill
A smock mill near Egerton church was moved to Stone Hill around 1818.
1919
Mill blown down
Stone Hill Mill was blown down on 2 December 1919.
1990–1999
Base incorporated in farm building
Up to the 1990s the base was incorporated in an isolated rectangular farm building.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Windmill World Kent windmills list
List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive site record
Windmill World Kent windmills list
List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive site record