View of Littlebourne Mill, on the Little Stour, Kent
C18 water mill. The main portion is of 4 storeys and attic in the gable floor brick, painted on the north-east front and tarred on the Upper storeys are painted weatherboarding. Tiled roof. Gable ends. north-west and south-west and 2 to north-east. Sashes with glazing bars intact. In the centre of the north-west front is a small gables projection rising the whole height of the building. Simple the west is an L-shaped addition of 2 storeys faced with weatherboardingand having a roof in 2 hips and 3 doorways in its west wall. Littlebourne mill was a corn mill with a breastshot waterwheel. The building survives, converted to residential use. The mill was standing in 1803, when it was leased to William White. In 1820, a 12-foot-6-inch-diameter ( m) by 5-foot-7-inch-wide ( m) waterwheel was installed for Mr Kingsford, replacing a smaller waterwheel. The mill was being run by William Halliday in 1851. In 1894, Messrs Holman Bros, millwrights of Canterbury, quoted £ for a new iron waterwheel and pit wheel, or £ for a new wooden one. The mill was owned by Mr Jarvis in 1944, in which year it was sold to Vitovis Ltd. In 1945, the mill was modernised by the fitting of roller milling machinery and converting the whole to be powered by electricity. A large sign on the mill advertised Hovis flour. The mill was later sold to Gardener & Sons of Birchington but had closed by 1957. The mill was house-converted in the early 1960s, with all machinery being removed
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Location: Littlebourne Mill, Nargate Street, Littlebourne, Kent
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
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