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
15665
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/03/1995
Date of Amendment
05/11/1996
Name of Property
Rhydlydan Mill
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Caersws
Town
Locality
Rhydlydan
Easting
305838
Northing
293176
Street Side
N
Location
The mill lies on the N side of the Newtown to Llanwnog road, in the valley of the Rhyd-ros-lan, which formed the ancient boundary of the Cantref of Arwystli.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
The water mill was built in c.1845, possibly on the site of an earlier mill. A later C19 drying kiln of similar materials is attached to the rear (E) end. The date 1845 painted internally is credible.
Exterior
Stone with brick dressings and eaves courses with a slate roof. The mill is of 2 storeys and attic. Two doors to the ground floor, with 2 windows, and three windows to upper stone floor plus 1 blocked window. The gable ends have timber framed and weatherboarded gables. A cambered-headed window at the rear lights the wheel house.
Interior
The funnel type kiln has a brick substructure, and perforated iron tiling to the loft. The attic storey of the mill has a raised walkway between the wooden bins; and trapdoors. Wooden sack-hoist to the left; the ties of the roof trusses arched to allow passage beneath. Wooden steps lead down from the attic to the stone floor, which has three sets of stones, two bearing the plates of E.Davies & Sons, Liverpool, and Kay & Hilton, Liverpool. The three pairs of stones are driven from above by wooden stone nuts; and have hoppers over. The drive to a flour dresser and a boulter are to the rear of the floor on the right. The driving machinery consist of internal overshot iron wheel with wooden buckets, the latter now lost, and iron pit wheel. The ground floor has wooden stair up to the stone floor, and a doorway into the kiln, which is also accessible from the stone floor.
Reason for designation
Included for is unusually complete survival of machinery, and, with overdrift stones and high floors, as a very rare type outside Eastern England.
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