The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 75 NE BOXLEY BOARLEY LANE (north west side) Sandling 5/60 The Old Mill G.V. II
Water Mill. Late C16 or early C17. Timber framed, weatherboarded on stone plinth. Left gable end (to stream) with red brick wall in English bond below framing. Plain tile roof. Built on slope. One storey and basement to front, 2 storeys to rear. Boarded half-door in original opening at left end with small boarded rectangular window under eaves to right of it. Very small rectangular window under eaves to left of centre and narrow boarded half-door above plinth to right of centre. Interior: 3 timber-framed bays. Baynearest stream has heavily thickened brick ground-floor wall to stream, and contains C19 fittings for machinery. Clasped purlin roof with reducing rafters, heavy collars and curved windbraces. Framing and beams exposed. No machinery remains at time of resurvey. (1)
Listing NGR: TQ7548258265 (1)

Description from record TQ 75 NE 224:
Listed building : no additional information available - Watermill built between 1571 and 1635. Timber framed, weatherboarded on stone plinth. Left gable end (to stream) with red brick wall in English bond below framing. Plain tile roof.


A disused water mill of at least 19th century on the Old Maidstone Rd at Sandling. Built on a ragstone base (with a 19th century brick phase where the wheel was) the single storey structure is of timber frame and weather board construction. Stephen Kelvey operated a seed crushing in Boxley in 1847 which was taken over by S.Sandling Kelvey by 1859.(1) As there is no water course capable of driving water powered machinery in the village and no windmill is known, Sandling Mill is perhaps the most likely candidate. The place name may well have been confused with Kelvey's name in the 1859 directory.(2)

Historic England archive material: BF008786 THE OLD MILL, BOXLEY

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1859 (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.