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Chestnut Mills

A Grade II Listed Building in Llandysul, Ceredigion

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0557 / 52°3'20"N

Longitude: -4.2637 / 4°15'49"W

OS Eastings: 244893

OS Northings: 242117

OS Grid: SN448421

Mapcode National: GBR DJ.DM2L

Mapcode Global: VH3KK.1LTH

Plus Code: 9C4Q3P4P+7G

Entry Name: Chestnut Mills

Listing Date: 13 January 1993

Last Amended: 13 January 1993

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 10588

Building Class: Industrial

ID on this website: 300010588

Location: Situated on Afon Clettwr approached by steep track from B4459 some 0.5km S of Capel Dewi.

County: Ceredigion

Community: Llandysul

Community: Llandysul

Locality: Capel Dewi

Traditional County: Cardiganshire

Tagged with: Mill

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History

Marked on 1891 Ordnance Survey. Owned 1899 by Thomas Williams.

Exterior

Circa 1885 woollen mill in rubble stone with slate roof and N end stack. Three-storey 8-window side to river with 12-pane fixed-light windows. Stone voussoirs to lower 2 floors, timber lintels to top floor. Door in seventh bay of ground floor. Added brick workshop against eighth bay. S end has big overshot waterwheel marked Thomas Jones Priory Foundry Carmarthen. N end has basement door, first-floor door (at ground level due to embanked ground), 12-pane window above and 2 attic 9-pane windows.
Rear elevation is masked by c1930 parallel range added when mill was used as a creamery. Red brick with concrete loading platform.

Reasons for Listing

Important survivor of the late C19 woollen industry in South Cardiganshire, still with water wheel.

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