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
14245
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/03/1994
Date of Amendment
02/03/1994
Name of Property
Dreifa Mills including two Water-Wheels
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Cenarth
Town
Locality
CWMORGAN
Easting
229267
Northing
234515
Street Side
Location
Situated down track of some 400m running S from Maesyfelin, Cwmorgan.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Exterior
1896 woollen mill in rubble stone with red brick dressings and slate roof. Three storeys, four-window range of 9-pane camber-headed windows with tilting top-lights. Red brick surrounds and slate sills. Red brick quoins. Small windows in end gables. N front has broad doors in third bay of ground floor and first bay of first floor. W end wall has one-window range of similar windows. S side has door in third bay of ground floor. E end has restored massive overshot iron wheel raised up on two stone carrying walls and fed by renewed metal leat on tall wooden posts. Wheel was made at Bridgend Foundry, Cardigan. A very large iron fly-wheel survives inside. Just E of wheel-pit is an outside boiling-vat, cast-iron in stone setting with small fireplace beneath. A second raised wheel is to S of first, also in raised stone wheel-pit, but is unrestored.
Interior
Reason for designation
An exceptionally fine woollen mill, worked by Evan Morgan, flannel manufacturer, in 1926 (Kellys Directory), and last used as for sock manufacture.
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