Description

SO 32 NW LONGTOWN CP Pontynys Mill

6/91

II

Watermill, now disused. Early C19. Coursed rubble stone with Welsh slate and
corrugated sheet roof. L-plan, wing projecting forward on right. 2 storeys and
attic. Facing gable has stable door on ground and first floors to left and a
1-light casement on each floor. A similar casement on ground and first floors of
left return, and a door on both floors of main range. An extension and boarded
windows on left end. Large iron and wood high-breast water wheel to rear. Interior
reputed to contain an elaborate gearing arrangement with four pairs of French burr
stones. Believed working until 1939.
(Coates, S.D. and Tucker, D.G: Watermills of the Monnow and Trothy: Monmouth
District Museum Service, 1978, pp,16, 27, 29).

Listing NGR: SO3263528835

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26347247

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)