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Derelict post mill photographed
Photographic records show the ruined wooden post mill without roof or sails, standing on a roundhouse base.
Site overview
Sinkhurst Green Mill was a post mill at Frittenden. It is recorded as a nineteenth-century post mill, possibly moved to the site from another location, and first appears in the record around 1829. The mill worked until the First World War and was demolished in the early 1950s.
Later records note that some remains of the collapsed trestle were still visible in the 1980s. Photographic archive material records the derelict post mill as a ruined wooden windmill standing on a roundhouse base, without roof or sails. The site is therefore a former post mill location with documented fragmentary remains after demolition.
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History
Sinkhurst Green Mill was a post mill at Frittenden. It is recorded around 1829 and may have been moved to the site from another location. The mill worked as a wind-powered post mill within the rural corn-milling landscape of the Weald.
The mill remained in working use until the First World War. After closure it survived in derelict condition, and photographic archive material records the ruined wooden post mill without roof or sails, standing on a roundhouse base. It was demolished in the early 1950s. Windmill records later noted that some remains of the collapsed trestle were visible in the 1980s, preserving a physical trace of the former mill after the main structure had gone.
Sinkhurst Green Mill is therefore a lost post mill site with documented late survival, demolition, and fragmentary remains. Its record preserves the transition from working post mill to ruin and then to archaeological remnant.
Timeline
1829
Post mill recorded
Sinkhurst Green Mill is recorded as a post mill at Frittenden around 1829.
1914–1918
Working use ended
The post mill worked until the First World War.
1950–1959
Mill demolished
Sinkhurst Green Mill was demolished in the early 1950s.
1980–1989
Trestle remains visible
Some remains of the collapsed trestle were visible in the 1980s.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
List of windmills in Kent
Lincolnshire Museums image record
Mills Archive photographic records
Archaeology Data Service record
List of windmills in Kent
Lincolnshire Museums image record
Mills Archive photographic records
Archaeology Data Service record