History

Late C18 water-driven flour mill with miller's accommodation included. Internal graffiti dates range from 1795 to 1848; the mill was in use until c1948.

Exterior

Rectangular rubble building set into a slope, with 3-storey main elevation, and 2-storey rear; red brick segmental heads to openings. Renewed, hipped slate roof with single squat chimney L of centre. 4-bay front with 2-bay mill section to R (now known as Pentrefelin) and miller's accommodation to L (Bwthyn-y-felin). The former has a wide entrance at R, with pegged wooden frame and modern boarded door. The domestic section has an entrance at L with modern door as before. Slightly-recessed modern sash-type windows (tilting upper sections) of 12- and 9 panes. Further modern windows to side and rear elevations of 6 to 12 panes. Single-storey gabled porch to L at rear, with former loading bay above, now a fixed sash window. To the R, a single-storey former bake-house projection at the corner with partly hipped roof; modern doors.

Interior

Large internal overshot waterwheel of approximately 6m diameter (partly disintigrated, June 1996), with secondary wheel operating the vertical driveshaft; the cast iron wheel has lost its paddles. Iron toothed crown wheel to first floor with associated layshafts and secondary drives. 3 large pairs of stones (two with modern boxing), mostly renewed timber hoppers; pulleys and wheels for mill pond sluicegate and sack hoist. 2 large panelled grain cupboards with raised and fielded panels to sides and hinged front. That to the R is the earlier and bears incised graffiti dates of 1795 and 1799; wooden hoppers above, that to R cupboard renewed. Also pulley-driven, a later C19 grinding machine with hopper as before, and consisting of a Christy and Norris `Disintigrator', and a `Eureka smut and separating machine' by Howes Babcock and co., New York (1865 model). 2 king post trusses to roof.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for the special interest of its exceptionally complete internal machinery.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29495136

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2