King's Mead Mill | |
Name Of Mill: | Kings Mead Mill Caldbec Hill Mill |
Gbgridref: | TQ 748 166 |
Coordinates: | 50.922°N 0.486°W |
Operator: | Private |
Built: | 1805 |
Purpose: | Corn mill |
Type: | Smock mill |
Storeys: | Four-storey smock |
Base Storeys: | Single-storey base |
Smock Sides: | Eight sides |
Sail Number: | Four sails |
Windshaft: | Cast iron |
Winding: | Fantail |
Fantail Blades: | Six blades |
Pairs Of Millstones: | Three pairs |
King's Mead Mill (also Battle Windmill or Caldbec Hill Mill) is a grade II listed smock mill at Battle, Sussex, England, which has been converted to residential accommodation.
King's Mead Mill was built in 1805, replacing a post mill. The mill was working until the First World War and in 1924 was stripped of its machinery and house converted. The work was done by Neve's, the Heathfield millwrights.[1]
King's Mead Mill is a four-storey smock mill on a single-storey brick base. It has a Kentish-style cap winded by a fantail. When working it had four shuttered sails carried on a cast-iron windshaft, driving three pairs of millstones. The current windshaft is a dummy, added when the mill was converted. The original windshaft is displayed at Polegate windmill.[1]