Drapers Mill is a smock windmill, that was built in a completely rural setting, which is now part of Margate.
It is a Grade II listed property with tarred weatherboarding on an octagonal brick base.
It was constructed in 1845 by the Canterbury millwright John Holman, on the site of earlier mills. It was worked by wind until 1916 and powered by a gas engine until 1933.
The mill was in a dilapidated condition when Kent County Council acquired it in 1968 and a programme of restoration was carried out. The mill is now fully functional.
There is open land to the south of Drapers Mill (a school site) and to the north (a field owned by the council). An Anglo-Saxon cemetery is nearby and some Roman remains have been recorded. It is looked after by the Drapers Windmill Trust.
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