Mill location TQ 415 640 Purpose Corn milling Storeys Three storeys Year built 1716 | Operator(s) Privately owned Type Post mill Roundhouse storeys Single storey Windshaft Cast iron | |
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Address Bromley, Keston BR2 6BF, UK Similar Bragg's Mill - Ashdon, Caston Windmill, Starston Windpump, Black Mill - Whitstable, Thrigby Windmill | ||
Keston Windmill is a grade I listed Post mill in Keston, formerly in Kent and now in the London Borough of Bromley. The mill was built in 1716 and is conserved with its machinery intact but not in working order.
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History
Keston Windmill was built in 1716. William Ashby, the Westerham millwright fitted new sails and repaired the breast of the mill in December 1836. The mill was working by wind until either 1878 or 1900. In 1955, Kent County Council placed a preservation order on the mill. The mill was built to grind corn into flour. The mill is privately owned and preserved with its machinery intact, but not in working order. It is not generally open to the public.
Description
Keston Mill has a three storey body on a single storey roundhouse. The roundhouse enclosed the trestle and the date 1716 is carved on the main post. It had four double Patent sails carried on a cast iron windshaft. The mill is winded by a tailpole. The wooden brake wheel drives a cast iron wallower, which drives a cast iron great spur wheel with wooden cogs. This drives two pairs of underdrift millstones in the breast of the mill. The mill also has a flour dresser (bolter). The bolter in Keston mill has been used as the model for a reconstructed bolter in Lowfield Heath Windmill, Charlwood, Surrey.
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