Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
10588
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/01/1993
Date of Amendment
13/01/1993
Name of Property
Chestnut Mills
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llandysul
Town
Locality
Capel Dewi
Easting
244893
Northing
242117
Street Side
Location
Situated on Afon Clettwr approached by steep track from B4459 some 0.5km S of Capel Dewi.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
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.
Interior
Reason for designation
Important survivor of the late C19 woollen industry in South Cardiganshire, still with water wheel.
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