Reed Mill Kingston · Kent · England

Reed Mill was built in the early nineteenth century as a tower corn mill at Kingston. It was a four-storey tower mill, formerly with a Kentish-style cap, four patent sails, and fantail winding. The mill had no stage and drove three pairs of millstones. It was marked on the 1858–72 Ordnance Survey map, confirming its place within the mid-nineteenth-century rural landscape south-east of Canterbury.

The working life of the mill continued into the early twentieth century. Daniel Gouger is recorded as miller from 1825 to around 1865, and F J Fagg was associated with the mill in 1915. On 28 March 1915 the mill was tailwinded. The cap and sails were blown off while the fantail was inoperative because a new gear was being cast. Repair was estimated to cost more than £300, and the mill was abandoned rather than restored to work.

The tower stood derelict for much of the twentieth century. Before its modern conversion it was an empty shell and the machinery had been removed. In 2010–11 the mill was converted and extended to form residential accommodation by RJ Gibbs and Sons Ltd. The scheme renovated the mill tower and added a new-build barn and glass conservatory. The conversion was featured in the first programme of the second series of Channel 4's The Restoration Man. Reed Mill now survives as a restored and converted tower, its historic form retained within a residential setting.