Mill building at Lower Llancayo Farm, Gwehelog Fawr, Monmouthshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7221 / 51°43'19"N

Longitude: -2.9173 / 2°55'2"W

OS Eastings: 336735

OS Northings: 202990

OS Grid: SO367029

Mapcode National: GBR J9.2LX5

Mapcode Global: VH79N.DZ38

Plus Code: 9C3VP3CM+R3

Entry Name: Mill building at Lower Llancayo Farm

Listing Date: 31 January 2000

Last Amended: 31 January 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 22796

Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence

ID on this website: 300022796

Location: Situated at SW of farm complex at Lower Llancayo, fronting onto the rear of Llancayo House.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Usk

Community: Gwehelog Fawr

Community: Llanarth

Locality: Llancayo

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

Tagged with: Mill

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History

Earlier C19 granary and mill building, part of the estate farm of Llancayo House. Marked on 1842 Tithe map.

Exterior

Mill building, rubble stone with graded slate hipped roof. Three-storey, five-window range, the ground floor a semi-basement with lunette lights above plinth, two each side of door. Glazing missing. Door has been enlarged to right, with timber lintel immediately under first floor door. Two cambered-headed windows each side of door to first floor. Upper floor has large centre loading door and 2 square windows under eaves each side. Basement lunettes and first floor openings have red sandstone voussoirs with keystones. End walls have 2-window range of similar windows, first floor door to E end left with brick and stone steps up. Rear obscured by modern barn, 4-window range with similar openings to first and second floors.

Interior

Oak beams and joists. Basement has 4 heavy beams and 4 iron posts. Red brick rear arches to windows. First floor has 3 beams, one removed, and some iron wheels and shafts for belt-driven machinery. Upper floor is plastered with remains of shafts for hoist. Loft floor above in roof.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a semi-industrial farm building of unusual scale and architectural character, a significant survival of the early C19 agricultural improvements on the Llancayo Estate.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Llancayo House
Situated on W side of B4598 about 2 km N of Usk, in Llancayo.
II Barn at Lower Llancayo
Situated at the back of the farmyard at Lower Llancayo, just W of B4598 at Llancayo.
II Lower Llancayo Farm and attached outbuildings
Situated just W of B4598, N of Llancayo House.
II Railings and gates to S of Llancayo House
Situated across foot of front lawn at Llancayo House.
II Outbuilding to E of Lower Llancayo Farm
Situated just E of main farm court at Lower Llancayo, facing S over access drive, just W of B4598.
II Windmill Tower to W of Llancayo House
Situated in field some 200m NW of Llancayo Farm, W of road to Usk.
II Upper Llancayo
Situated some 500m up lane to Gwehelog Common from A471 at Llancayo, on left side of road.
II Prioress Mill and Mill Cottage
Situated between the river Usk and the A472 about 400m north of Usk College.

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Mill building at Lower Llancayo Farm

A Grade II Listed Building in Gwehelog Fawr, Monmouthshire