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
19883
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/05/1998
Date of Amendment
20/05/1998
Name of Property
Melin Bodowyr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Llanidan
Town
Locality
Bodowyr
Easting
246893
Northing
368166
Street Side
Location
Located to the S of Melin Bodowyr farmhouse, on the N side of an unmarked road between the farms of Llys Lew and Bodrida, c 2km NE of Brynsiencyn.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Melin Bodowyr is listed in the Lligwy papers in 1747, and is shown on an estate map of 1783 (Boston Estate), along with the land associated with the farm, and the watercourses serving the mill. There are two mill buildings shown on the map; both are extant although that to the S has been long redundant as a mill. The main mill building was extended to the W by 1 bay, probably in the late C19, and a small churn room added to the W gable wall. The mill continued to work until 1946.
Exterior
Water powered corn mill. The main mill is a rectangular 2 storey building with an external waterwheel in pit to left (E) end. Rubble walls with pitched slate roof covering. Central door to front (N), widened from original proportions, and a narrow door to the rear (S) wall. Small windows to first floor. The extent of the original building is marked by massive stones to the quoins. To the left (E) of the door is a single storey projection, probably a store. To the right of the door is a late C19 single bay addition of rubble stone, with a small churn room to the right (W) gable end. The waterwheel has cast-iron rims, hubs and sockets, with wooden buckets and spokes. To the SE, aligned at an angle to the main mill, is an earlier mill building, shown on the 1783 estate map. Rubble walls and slate roof, with a single door in the NE wall. The waterwheel pit is infilled.
Interior
The mill retains all of its machinery, including great spur wheel, pit wheel, wallower and stone nuts, driving two millstones which are located on the first floor. Formerly with an overhead drive-shaft driving a sack-hoist, cleaning box and churn in the churn room to the W gable end.
Reason for designation
Listed as a scarce example on Anglesey of a complete water-powered corn mill, retaining all machinery intact.
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