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
14096
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/03/1987
Date of Amendment
24/05/2002
Name of Property
The Mill House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Pontcanna
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Pontcanna Fields
Easting
316366
Northing
178068
Street Side
Location
At the north end of Pontcanna Fields, immediately adjacent to the Cardiff Equestrian Centre.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early to mid C19 (shown on 1846 Tithe Map). Originally used as a fulling mill, later converted to a House of Mercy. This part of the building must have been the Miller's house and the actual mill was behind with the race and wheel between.
Exterior
Built with random rubble facings with block quoins and voussoir lintels, jutting stone cills. Pitched slate roof without verges, tiled ridge, rubble end stacks. Simple two storey, three window late Georgian south front. 16-pane sash windows in wide timber frames; arched centre doorway with plain fanlight and jambs, boarded door. Attic window to west gable, modernised ground floor openings, doorway in high outshot linking to The Mill Cottage (formerly No 1 Upper Mill Cottages) to rear. East gable similar, modern (1995) garden room attached at rear. Wooden casement windows to rear elevation when listed, not seen at resurvey (2001).
Interior
At listing (1987) the cottage had a simple interior then sub-divided into two cottages with No 2 along the west side. Central Hallway gave access to No 3,to main timber dogleg staircase reached under a depressed arch with double 2-panel doors. Interior not available at resurvey, but it has been converted to a single house with the usual repairs and modernisation.
Reason for designation
Included for its social and economic history interest as part of a rare surviving fulling mill within the city boundary.
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