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
18893
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/09/1997
Date of Amendment
19/09/1997
Name of Property
NE range, Middle Factory, Leri Mills
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Ceulanamaesmawr
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Talybont
Easting
265292
Northing
289107
Street Side
Location
Situated on S bank of the Leri, some 150m W of Talybont Bridge, at upper end of mill complex.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Testile mill said to date from 1809, extended to S in later C19. First built as flannel mill by Morgan firm from Caersws. Used as a spinning mill in C20, disused since 1980s. Marked on 1847 Tithe Map as owned by the Gogerddan estate, occupied by Thomas Morgan and others.
Exterior
Whitewashed rubble stone with tin-sheet roof cladding, formerly graded slate. Roof half-hipped at N, and originally at S, until extended up to track. Two-storey, long range, the older part to left. Four-window range, upper windows under eaves, three-light with thin timber vertical bars. Main floor has two windows to centre with cambered stone-voussoir heads and small-pane glazing to casement pairs, the glazing bars metal. Third window has timber lintel and 3-light glazing. Basement has 13' iron waterwheel left and leat to right.
Added upper range has straight joint and follows slope uphill. Broad door with brick head to left, first floor 3-light and 4-light windows. S gable end door to loft (at ground level) with brick head and small apex light.
Interior
Not inspected, original S half-hip said to remain in roof indicating 1809 end wall.
Reason for designation
Part of a remarkably early example of a comprehensive woollen factory in Cardiganshire, built on an unusually extensive form for a rural mill.
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