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
25048
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/03/2001
Date of Amendment
19/03/2001
Name of Property
Skenfrith Mill
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Skenfrith
Town
Monmouth
Locality
Skenfrith
Easting
345744
Northing
220240
Street Side
N
Location
Sited close to the SE corner of Skenfrith Castle, on the SW side of a leet which passes beside the E wall of the castle.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Dated 1867 at 1st-floor level of the SW side; continued to function until the 1990s (though by then electrically-powered).
Exterior
A sturdy stone-built watermill, with its water-wheel still intact. Built of snecked rubble with freestone quoins and freestone dressings to most openings, and slate roofs. Rectangular plan parallel with the leet to its rear, the SE half designed as a twin-gabled wing. Three-and-a-half storeys. The entrance front to the SW, the left half of which is gabled and surmounted by a gable chimney, has a segmental-headed doorway offset slightly right of centre at ground floor level, with a board door, a flanking pair of similar doorways at 1st-floor level, a segmental-headed 16-pane top-hung casement window in the gable to the left, and at 2nd-floor level of the right-hand half a small square datestone inscribed "E. PROSSER . M / P. BEAVAN . C / 1867". The left (NW) return wall, towards the castle, is symmetrical with a pair of square 2-light casement windows at ground floor and 1st floor and a single segmental-headed 2-light casement in the centre of the 2nd floor. The twin-gabled SE side is also symmetrical, each half having a segmental-headed 16-pane window to each main floor and a narrow 6-pane attic window in the gable, all these with top-hung casement openings in the heads. At the rear, over the leet, the right-hand half is gabled and has a wheel-pit containing a large iron-framed undershot water wheel with wooden paddles, and three windows vertically aligned above this (all with glazing like the SE side).
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a Victorian water mill, standing in very interesting contrast to Skenfrith Castle.
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