Sandhurst Windmill, Kent, England, Britain, UK
Ringle Crouch Green Mill is a smock mill in Sandhurst, Kent, England that was demolished to base level in 1945, and now has a new smock tower built on it as residential accommodation and an electricity generator. In 1997, planning permission was applied for, and granted, to build a replica mill on the existing mill base, with the tower being used as living accommodation and a wind turbine for generating electricity. The new building was to replicate the former windmill, with five sails like the original mill had. Ringle Crouch Green Mill was a four-storey smock mill on a two-storey brick base, with a Kentish-style cap carrying five single patent sails on a cast-iron windshaft. It was winded by a fantail. There was a stage at second-floor level. The mill drove four pairs of millstones. The reconstructed mill has a four-storey smock on the original two-storey mill base, with the cap of a different design to the original, and lacking a fantail
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