Union Mill
Union Mill, The Hill, Cranbrook
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1356175
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Union Mill
- Statutory Address:
- Union Mill, The Hill, Cranbrook
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- 2002-08-20
- Reference:
- IOE01/08546/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1356175
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Union Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- Union Mill, The Hill, Cranbrook
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Union Mill, The Hill, Cranbrook
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 77906 35948
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/02/2018
TQ 7735 NE
12/196
CRANBROOK
THE HILL (north east side),
Union Mill
(Formerly listed as Cranbrook or Union Windmill, previously listed as The Windmill)
09.06.52
GV
I
Smock Mill. 1814, by millwright James Humphrey; Henry Dobell miller. Painted brick base with timber-framed and weatherboarded structure above and timber-framed and weatherboarded boat-shaped cap. Wooden sweeps and fantail.
Four-storey base and three-storey upper structure. Scattered fenestration in both upper and lower parts with various entrances and granary doors. Encircling platform above base of wood on iron braces with iron railing. Machinery intact and in working order; still in use as a mill, though more often milling by electricity than by wind-power (when surveyed).
Listing NGR: TQ7790635946
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169045
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wailes, R, The English Windmill, (1954), 34-7
Pevsner, N, Newman, John, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (2012), 203
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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