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The Windmill Inn, Sevenoaks
Weald
Postal town: Sevenoaks
TN14 6PN
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Windmill Inn
Corner pub overlooking the village green. The pub has been opened up somewhat. Etched glass windows bear the names of the original rooms. The space is L-shaped with dark green wainscotting and white painted walls giving a fairly traditional feel. The walls hold a few old pictures and some breweriana. There is a fireplace with a nice surround at one end and a dartboard at the narrow end of the L. Parquet flooring at the fireplace end, laminate flooring around the bar and carpet in the dartboard area. Another pretty tiled fireplace can be seen next to the bar and contains a wood burner.
The regular cask ale is Larkin's Traditional. There were a couple of guest beers - Wantsum Black Prince & Tiny Rebel Cosmic Pale. A couple of other handpulls were clipped with ciders from Biddenden's - Strong Kentish Cider Dry & Kentish Kiss. A sixth handpull was unclipped. Hawkstone IPA was being sold on keg. I opted for an enjoyable half of the Kentish Kiss, which set me back £3.20. Wine menus were also available on clipboards.
Food is served here and the two staff members were preparing for a large family meal later in the afternoon. A specials menu on a blackboard featured "Nigel's Homemade Pie" for £19.95 and a full rack of ribs for £23.95.
A TV was on mute, with background pop music from the likes of Crystal Waters and Stevie Nicks playing. Dogs are welcome.
A tiled corridor leads to the toilets and the garden. A giant Connect 4 game in the corridor is presumably meant for the garden in summer months. In addition to the garden, there are several picnic tables to the front.
A fairly decent start to a crawl of Kent but being the only customer on a Wednesday lunchtime, the atmosphere was a little muted. So, it was quite difficult to judge.
On 4th October 2026
- rating: 6
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Windmill Inn
Traditional village pub, which had a bit money spent on it but which still retains plenty of character. Elongated 'L'-shaped bar which looks like it has been opened out at some stage from the previous saloon, lounge and 'Jug Department' plus a side room and an extension of uncertain age. Nice position on the green and popular with walking groups. This was a Greene King pub on my last visit over 16 years ago, but now a freehouse offering Larkins Traditional, Wantsum's 1381 and the Estate chocolate Porter from Titsey (£5.40) plus a couple of ciders from the bank of six handpumps. I liked it before, and more so now.
On 23rd March 2026
- rating: 8
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Windmill Inn
This is a nice village pub situated at one corner of the village green and easily accessed from the nearby Sevenoaks bypass. The exterior has a simple, two-tone colour scheme that has been brightened up considerably by the addition of several colourful hanging baskets. Entering through the right side of the building, you pass a small side room to the right of the bar with a few tables and chairs in a cosy looking spot, before reaching the main bar area. The room is bare boarded and has nice etched glass ‘Public Bar’ panes in the front windows, whilst the servery runs along the rear wall. The bar has a white wood panelled counter, modern bar back and simple canopy decorated with some old framed pictures and a flat screen TV. Seating here is fairly limited, comprising a row of tables and chairs along the front wall and one more in a small space next to the bar, separated by a pleasant tiled fireplace with a plain mirror in a chunky wooden frame above. The room extends to the left into a tiled floor space that was clearly once a separate room, as evidenced by more etched glass panes in the front windows, this time denoting a ‘Club Room’. Walls here are half panelled with cream uppers and there is a fine fireplace on the end wall with a decorative wooden surround and mantle lined with Windmill-themed objects and a collection of ceramic jugs and other such vessels on the hearth. The walls throughout are liberally covered with old black and white photos, framed maps, lots of good breweriana (especially old Courage items), shelves full of porcelain, some sherry barrels in the window sills and half an upturned barrel which has been nailed to the wall and acts as a table stacked high with various board games. There’s a tidy beer garden out the back and I suspect some punters spill out onto the village green on summer days.
With the current Covid restrictions limiting customer numbers, the cask ale range has been proportionately scaled back, with just two options available – one from Harveys and another from Larkins, although the waitress, having already gone off once to check which beers were on, returned only with the names of the breweries and not of the beers, so I took pot luck and went for the Larkins, which turned out to be an excellent pint of bitter, so I suspect it was Larkins Traditional. We had a Sunday roast here and found the food excellent quality, although at £15 for the cheapest roast, it wasn’t exactly budget friendly.
I really liked this place and thought it was an excellent asset to this pleasant village. The pub has clearly been opened out and adapted to suit modern day requirements, but it has retained a lot of character and certainly doesn’t feel in any way like a typical rural gastro-pub. The food and beer are both worthy of recommendation and I think this place will appeal to a wide range of customers from young families to pub traditionalists.
On 15th October 2020
- rating: 8
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