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Post mill recorded
Rolvenden Windmill is recorded as a wind-powered post mill.
Site overview
Rolvenden Windmill is a preserved post mill at Rolvenden. Windmill records identify it as a complete post mill and one of the notable surviving Kent post mills. The site appears in Windmill World at about 51.05370, 0.62138.
The mill is protected as a listed building and survives with its post-mill body, roundhouse, and main structural machinery, including the windshaft. The recorded history is strongest for the surviving fabric and preservation of the post-mill form. As a rare surviving Kent post mill, it preserves the older windmill type that was largely replaced in many places by smock and tower mills.
Map
Map markers and directions links are provided for location reference only and do not indicate public access or permission to enter a site.
No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Rolvenden Windmill stands at Rolvenden and is recorded as a surviving post mill. It represents one of the smaller group of Kent post mills to survive as standing structures, preserving the rotating timber body and associated substructure that distinguish the type from the later fixed smock and tower mills.
The mill survives as a complete post mill with its timber body, roundhouse, and windshaft. Modern windmill records identify the site as a preserved windmill, and its survival places it among the most important examples of the county's post-mill tradition. The known record for this site is strongest for the building's surviving form and present preservation rather than for a detailed sequence of individual millers. Rolvenden Windmill remains a significant physical survival of the wind-powered corn-milling landscape of the Weald.
Timeline
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Post mill preserved
The windmill survives as a preserved post mill with its main post-mill form intact.
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Listed building protection
Rolvenden Windmill is protected as a listed historic windmill.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
List of windmills in Kent
Kent windmill reference works
Mills Archive photographic records
List of windmills in Kent
Kent windmill reference works
Mills Archive photographic records