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
5426
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/10/1951
Date of Amendment
12/12/2000
Name of Property
Melin Adda
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Amlwch
Town
Amlwch
Locality
Pentrefelin
Easting
243984
Northing
392142
Street Side
N
Location
Set back from the N side of Ffordd Tanybryn, c200m due east of Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones in Pentrefelin.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
A late C18 tower windmill, one of three mills in the locality, the other two being watermills. The Census Returns of 1841 record there being numerous people living at the milling complex at Pentrefelin, including 3 millers: David Roberts, Robert Williams and William Jones; a baker, Mary Thomas, and a mill agent, Owen Lewis. The Tithe Schedule of the following year records the land as being owned by Mr Richard Jones and occupied by Joseph Jones. Slater's Directory of 1850 lists the owners of Melin Adda Mills (the windmill and one watermill) as 'Lewis & Owens'. The miller at that time was Owen Hughes, who died in 1851 after being struck by one of Melin Adda'a sails. He was succeeded by Hugh Hughes, who milled until his death in 1865, followed by John Williams. The mill had changed ownership by 1881, recorded in an Amlwch trade directory of that year as belonging to 'Messrs Wm Jones and Son, Corn and Flour Merchants'. The mill closed in 1912, becoming an empty shell before being converted into a dwelling in the mid-1970s.
Exterior
A tapering circular windmill tower of 3 storeys. Built of rubble masonry, rendered, with shallow octagonal slate roof. Modern door and windows in original openings.
Interior
Interior not inspected at the time of the survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a complete late C18 windmill tower, one of only 18 out of over 40 such towers which were working on Anglesey in the mid C19, and built to cater for the needs of the rapidly expanding population of Amlwch due to the industrial boom brought about by the nearby copper mines. Melin Adda formed part of a complete milling complex on the site, along with 2 watermills and other associated buildings.
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