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
17570
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/11/1996
Date of Amendment
12/11/1996
Name of Property
Pentrefelin and Bwthyn-y-felin
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Eglwysbach
Town
Locality
Pentre' Felin
Easting
280638
Northing
369318
Street Side
Location
Located approximately 1.5km S of Eglwysbach village, immediately to the W of the lane leading from Eglwysbach S towards Llanddoged and Maenan; set back slightly behind a partly-enclosed forecourt.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Late C18 water-driven flour mill with miller's accommodation included. Internal graffiti dates range from 1795 to 1848; the mill was in use until c1948.
Exterior
Rectangular rubble building set into a slope, with 3-storey main elevation, and 2-storey rear; red brick segmental heads to openings. Renewed, hipped slate roof with single squat chimney L of centre. 4-bay front with 2-bay mill section to R (now known as Pentrefelin) and miller's accommodation to L (Bwthyn-y-felin). The former has a wide entrance at R, with pegged wooden frame and modern boarded door. The domestic section has an entrance at L with modern door as before. Slightly-recessed modern sash-type windows (tilting upper sections) of 12- and 9 panes. Further modern windows to side and rear elevations of 6 to 12 panes. Single-storey gabled porch to L at rear, with former loading bay above, now a fixed sash window. To the R, a single-storey former bake-house projection at the corner with partly hipped roof; modern doors.
Interior
Large internal overshot waterwheel of approximately 6m diameter (partly disintigrated, June 1996), with secondary wheel operating the vertical driveshaft; the cast iron wheel has lost its paddles. Iron toothed crown wheel to first floor with associated layshafts and secondary drives. 3 large pairs of stones (two with modern boxing), mostly renewed timber hoppers; pulleys and wheels for mill pond sluicegate and sack hoist. 2 large panelled grain cupboards with raised and fielded panels to sides and hinged front. That to the R is the earlier and bears incised graffiti dates of 1795 and 1799; wooden hoppers above, that to R cupboard renewed. Also pulley-driven, a later C19 grinding machine with hopper as before, and consisting of a Christy and Norris `Disintigrator', and a `Eureka smut and separating machine' by Howes Babcock and co., New York (1865 model). 2 king post trusses to roof.
Reason for designation
Listed for the special interest of its exceptionally complete internal machinery.
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