TQ 803417. Maplehurst Watermill comprises of two ranges forming an L-shape. The west range is of three storeys, consisting of a red brick ground and first floor and a weatherboarded third floor with a hipped tiled roof. It has a brick inscribed 'D.P.1756.' The east range is a 19th century addition and is completely weatherboarded with a hipped slate roof. An iron overshot wheel and some machinery remains. Grade III. (Shown but not named on OS 1:2500 1970 at TQ 80304171). (1-2) Water wheel possibly of relatively unusual pitch back type. Mill house probably originally free-standing, adjoins end of C19 range. 2 storeys on brick plinth, hipped roof. Listed grade II

Description from record TQ 84 SW 125:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
STAPLEHURST MILL LANE TQ 84 SW (West side) Frittenden
4/93 Maplehurst Mill
II
Partly in Frittenden civil parish. House with water-mill attached. House C17, or possibly earlier, with later alterations and additions. West range of mill 1756, east range mid C19. Mill of 2 parallel ranges, that to west 1756, that to east mid C19 and wrapped round part of north gable end of C18 section. House, probably originally free-standing, adjoins south gable end of C19 range and faces west away from road. House: west elevation red brick in Flemish bond. First floor of south gable end tile-hung. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys on brick plinth. Hipped roof. Filleted red and grey brick stack towards centre. Regular 3-window front of two recessed tripartite sashes and central 2-light casement. Tripartite sashes with cambered heads to ground floor. Central boarded door. Rear return wing to right red and grey brick on ground floor, tile-hung above with hipped roof. Shorter weatherboarded, gabled rear wing to left. Interior not inspected. Mill: C18 range: red and grey brick in English bond, with weatherboarded gables and plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic on brick plinth. Half-hipped gambrel roof. One 2-light casement to each gable end. Stable door with segmental head to north end of west elevation. Boarded door to south gable end. Dated brick HB to north,DP 1756 to south. Undershot waterwheel to north 1756 IL gable end, with sluice to west. C19 range: timber framed, weather- boarded, with slate roof. 3 storeys. Hipped roof. North gable-end loading door to each floor. 2 two-light casements to second floor to east side, and 3 to each of ground and first floors. Interior: machinery and fittings from several periods survive intact. Parish boundary runs north-south through C18 range and is marked on a cross- beam. Waterwheel possibly of the relatively unusual pitch back type.
Listing NGR: TQ8149241035

Description from record TQ 84 SW 201:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
STAPLEHURST MILL LANE TQ 84 SW (West side) Frittenden
4/93 Maplehurst Mill
II
Partly in Frittenden civil parish. House with water-mill attached. House C17, or possibly earlier, with later alterations and additions. West range of mill 1756, east range mid C19. Mill of 2 parallel ranges, that to west 1756, that to east mid C19 and wrapped round part of north gable end of C18 section. House, probably originally free-standing, adjoins south gable end of C19 range and faces west away from road. House: west elevation red brick in Flemish bond. First floor of south gable end tile-hung. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys on brick plinth. Hipped roof. Filleted red and grey brick stack towards centre. Regular 3-window front of two recessed tripartite sashes and central 2-light casement. Tripartite sashes with cambered heads to ground floor. Central boarded door. Rear return wing to right red and grey brick on ground floor, tile-hung above with hipped roof. Shorter weatherboarded, gabled rear wing to left. Interior not inspected. Mill: C18 range: red and grey brick in English bond, with weatherboarded gables and plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic on brick plinth. Half-hipped gambrel roof. One 2-light casement to each gable end. Stable door with segmental head to north end of west elevation. Boarded door to south gable end. Dated brick HB to north,DP 1756 to south. Undershot waterwheel to north 1756 IL gable end, with sluice to west. C19 range: timber framed, weather- boarded, with slate roof. 3 storeys. Hipped roof. North gable-end loading door to each floor. 2 two-light casements to second floor to east side, and 3 to each of ground and first floors. Interior: machinery and fittings from several periods survive intact. Parish boundary runs north-south through C18 range and is marked on a cross- beam. Waterwheel possibly of the relatively unusual pitch back type.
Listing NGR: TQ8149241035

Description from record TQ 84 SW 171:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
FRITTENDEN MILL LANE TQ 8041-8141 (west side)
13/25 Maplehurst Mill GV II Mill. 1756 for David Papillon of Acrise and extended mid C19. The old mill of red brick with weather boarded gables and plain tiled roof, the new mill of timber framing, weather boarded with slate roof. Two parallel ranges. Old mill: 2 storeys and garret, reducing to 1 storey and garret to north. The ground floor/basement thickened and weathered. Half-hipped roof. Boarded door and 2 casements to west (left side), and 1 wooden casement on garret and 1st floor, with dovecote on 1st floor, and 2 casements on ground floor with central boarded door. Double terracotta plaque to left of door inscribed: D P 1756. The new mill (facing east) of 3 storeys and hipped roof, with brick and stone flat arch over stream. Three wooden casements on 2nd floor, and 4 each on 1st and ground floor. Loft doors on each floor to right return. The wheel is attached to the old mill to west, in the re-entrant angle of the two ranges; an overshot wheel 8 feet wide and 10 feet in diameter, driving 3 sets of wheels. Interior: carved on a beam in the old mill the letters S and I divided by a line. This marks the (still current) parish boundary between Staplehurst (Maidstone District) and Frittenden. The mill machinery, of various C18 to early C20 dates survives with remarkable completeness, although the water-driven mechanism is no longer operative, and is very fully described in M J Fuller and R J Spain, Watermitts (Kent and the Borders of Sussex), pp 95-102). Attached to the south east is the older mill house separately described and fully in Frittenden Civil Parish. (Item 13/26)
Listing NGR: TQ8030841705 (3)

<1> Indust Arch of SE Eng 1978 42 (AJ Haselfoot) (OS Card Reference). SKE44282.

<2> MHLG 2021/11/A Cranbrook RD Kent 1960 40-41 (OS Card Reference). SKE47082.

<3> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.