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
11119
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/10/1972
Date of Amendment
27/08/1999
Name of Property
The Mill, Llandybie
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llandybie
Town
Ammanford
Locality
Llandybie village
Easting
261938
Northing
215499
Street Side
N
Location
Beside Afon Marlais to the north east of Llandybie Bridge. Former miller's house immediately to its east.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Probably an 18th-century corn mill, said to have been used later to grind silica rock. Mill race carried water from a weir ½ km north on the Afon Marlais. The wheel is said to have been breast-shot. The mill was on the Cawdor estate, for the use of Cawdor tenants; occupied by Daniel and Jane Bowen in 1824. In 1840 it was recorded as mill, homestead and waste in the occupation of Evan Evans. Last worked during the 1914-18 war.
Exterior
Three storey, three window front of axe-dressed limestone roughly brought to courses, facing east towards the miller's house. Gabled asbestos roof with axe-dressed stone stack to the south end. Small rectangular fixed-light openings with mullions to second floor; windows to first and ground floors with cambered head linings and mullions and transoms; one segmental-headed window and two segmental-headed entrances on ground floor.
Rubble masonry in the south gable end. Doors to the ground and first storeys. A flight of wooden steps which formerly led to the upper entrance has disappeared. Small cambered-head opening at left; blocked opening beneath.
Full-width projection to the rear (west) side, under a catslide continuation of the main roof in slates. Segmental arches over two door openings; near the eaves is a small boxed bearing in which a pillow block survives.
Single storey stone shed at the north end, in tandem, with informal shedding roofed in corrugated steel at its rear.
Interior
No mill machinery remains.
Reason for designation
A village corn mill of considerable character retaining its relationship to its listed miller's house.
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