Kingsdown Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1967. Windmill.
Kingsdown Mill
- WRENN ID
- nether-cobble-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1967
- Type
- Windmill
- Address
- Kingsdown Mill, Pells Lane, West Kingsdown
- OS grid reference
- TQ 582 622
- Coordinates
- 51.33729, 0.26977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kingsdown Mill is a smock mill dating from around 1800. It has an octagonal weatherboarded structure sitting on a rectangular base made of red brick. The cap is boat-shaped, and only the middlings of the sweeps remain, while the fantail has been restored. Originally, this mill was located at Chinham Farm in Farningham, where David Norton was the miller in the early 19th century. In 1880, it was moved to its current site by his grandson, Tanner Norton, where it stood next to a post mill that was destroyed by fire in 1909. A stone in the foundations is inscribed with "Minnie Louisa Norton, 21st April 1880." The mill last operated in 1928.
Local climate
Kingsdown Mill receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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