Monument record TQ 45 NE 216 - Site of West Kent Steam Laundry, formerly a Paper Mill, Main Road, Sundridge

Summary

Site of former West Kent Steam Laundry, formerly a Paper Mill, Main Road, Sundridge

Location

Grid reference Centred TQ 4892 5552 (59m by 70m)
Map sheet TQ45NE
County KENT
Civil Parish SUNDRIDGE WITH IDE HILL, SEVENOAKS, KENT
District SEVENOAKS, KENT

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Type and Period (2)

Full Description

Site of former Paper Mill, Sundridge as shown on the 1st and 2nd Edition O/S maps. The site then became the West Kent Steam Laundry as shown on the 3rd and 4th Edition O/S maps.
Information taken directly from source indicates that Sundridge Mill was on a Domesday mill site where corn had been milled until the 18th. It became a red brick paper mill, producing paper for the Bank of England until its closure when the work was transferred to Eynsford Mill. It included long building with facilities for drying the paper and seems to have included the use of steam power. By the 1959s the mill buildings were rebuilt as the West Kent Laundry, the waterwheel was removed c1914 to be replaced by steam power and the wood used to make coffins. The mill was demolished in October 1969. There was also an: L shaped 18th mill house against the road. Upstream was an elongated mill pond made out of a mill leat and with a channel in an iron trough between the two buildings where the wheel was. There was a brick chimney.


Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 1st edition 1862-1875): Landmark Epoch 1 (Map). SKE30964.

Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 2nd Edition, 1897-1900): Landmark Epoch 2 (Map). SKE30965.

Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 4th Edition, 1929-1952): Landmark Epoch 4 (Map). SKE30967.

Landmark, 1907-1923, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 3rd Edition, 1907-1923): Landmark Epoch 3 (Map). SKE30966.

Unknown, 2010, Thames Tributary, Darent - Sundridge - Edith's Streets (Website). SKE55050.

Sources/Archives (5)

  • --- Map: Landmark. Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 1st edition 1862-1875): Landmark Epoch 1.
  • --- Map: Landmark. Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 2nd Edition, 1897-1900): Landmark Epoch 2.
  • --- Map: Landmark. 1907-1923. Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 3rd Edition, 1907-1923): Landmark Epoch 3.
  • --- Map: Landmark. Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 4th Edition, 1929-1952): Landmark Epoch 4.
  • --- Website: Unknown. 2010. Thames Tributary, Darent - Sundridge - Edith's Streets.

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Record last edited

Aug 30 2022 11:42AM