Charing Windmill | |
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Origin | |
Mill name | Field Mill |
Grid reference | TQ 957 503 |
Coordinates | 51°13′1″N 0°48′8″E / 51.21694°N 0.80222°E |
Year built | Early nineteenth century |
Information | |
Purpose | Corn milling |
Type | Smock mill |
Storeys | Three-storey smock |
Base storeys | One storey |
Smock sides | Eight-sided |
No. of sails | Four |
Type of sails | Two Common sails and two Spring sails |
Windshaft | Cast iron |
Winding | Fantail |
Fantail blades | Six |
No. of pairs of millstones | Three pairs |
Other information | Was painted white when a working mill, tarred black since conversion to a house. |
Charing Windmill is a Grade II listed[1] smock windmill, now converted to a house, on Charing Hill in Kent in southeast England. It is sometimes known as Field Mill, but that name was also used by a watermill in Charing.