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
12690
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/03/1963
Date of Amendment
28/07/1992
Name of Property
Felin Isaf, including former Water Mill to rear
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
St. David's and the Cathedral Close
Town
Locality
Porthclais
Easting
174466
Northing
224999
Street Side
Location
Situated down drive some 250m SE of Pont Clegyr-Boia on St David's to Treginnis lane.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Exterior
Early and later C19 mill and mill house on River Alun. Mill building to rear probably early C19, mill house mid to later C19, though a mill has been recorded here from 1326.
Two-storey three-window rubble stone house, formerly roughcast, with imitation slate roof and roughcast end stacks. C20 timber sashes, 9-pane above, 12-pane below with cambered brick heads. Centre window replaces ledged door and windows have all been replaced since 1981. Roughcast end walls and lean-to on E end.
Mill building: behind is rubble stone building with S gable over mill stream, former overshot water-wheel has gone. One small fixed light at low level, one 2-pane fixed light with cambered brick head above. Evidence in gable that eaves have been raised. W side is built out since 1981 with big French windows, original wall survives within. E side has lean-to to left and recessed porch with C20 double doors.
Mill is fed by mill-leat from Cathedral Close and was the Bishop's Mill, also known as Dewiston, Dewston or Lower Mill.
Interior
Complete mill-machinery: survives within mill section and there is said to be a date 'I Roberts 1810'.
Reason for designation
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