1719
Earlier mill recorded
A windmill at Grange Road was recorded by 1719.
Site overview
Grange Road Mill was a smock corn mill at Ramsgate. An earlier mill at or near Grange Road was recorded in 1719 and stood south-south-east of St Lawrence church. The later smock mill was built by 1843 and was still standing in 1905.
It was demolished in 1930, leaving the base, which was later used as a greengrocer's. The base itself was demolished in 1937 or 1938, and a parade of shops was built on the site. The windmill is therefore now a lost smock mill site rather than a surviving structure.
Map
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History
Grange Road Mill was a wind-powered mill at Ramsgate. A mill at Grange Road was recorded by 1719, standing about four furlongs south-south-east of St Lawrence church. The later smock mill was built by 1843 and formed part of Ramsgate's nineteenth-century corn-milling landscape.
The mill was still standing in 1905 and was photographed in the early twentieth century. Its upper structure was demolished in 1930, leaving only the base. That remaining base was then adapted for commercial use as a greengrocer's. It was finally demolished in 1937 or 1938, after which a parade of shops was built on the site.
No physical windmill structure now survives. Grange Road Mill is a site-only record, preserving the documented location and sequence of a Ramsgate smock mill from early mapping through nineteenth-century working use and twentieth-century demolition.
Timeline
1843
Smock mill recorded
The later Grange Road smock mill was recorded by 1843.
1905
Mill still standing
The smock mill was still standing in 1905.
1930
Mill demolished to base
Grange Road Mill was demolished in 1930, leaving only the base.
1930–1938
Base used as greengrocer's
The remaining base was used as a greengrocer's before its final demolition in 1937 or 1938.
Sources and records
Historic England Archive photograph: Grange Road Mill, Ramsgate
List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive catalogue references
Archives Hub record: Grange Road Mill, Ramsgate
List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive catalogue references
Archives Hub record: Grange Road Mill, Ramsgate