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
8702
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/02/1992
Date of Amendment
31/01/1997
Name of Property
Former grain and timber kiln
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanbrynmair
Town
Locality
Bont Dolgadfan
Easting
288454
Northing
299854
Street Side
E
Location
Set immediately beside and below the road with its gable end facing diagonally across a corner at the top of the steep hill down to Bont Pandy. It is slightly to the N and opposite the drive and lodge to Plâs Llywn Owen.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Later C19, built by the Winteringham Stable Estate to serve the Gelli-dymyll mill.
Exterior
A low single storey rubble building with a slate roof and ventilating ridge tiles. SW gable end is just above road level and has decorative bargeboards with openwork acorns of the family arms. Tumbled infill red brick to timber framing. Central door servicing the loft floor, with a W monogram on a lower quoin. On the right side, a door with cambered brick voussoirs, and square ventilator on the downhill gable.
Interior
Door leads to working area in front of the kiln mouth, which has a grate to a firebox in a brick pedestal, the outer sides curving up on groin ribs to iron beams, which form a table at the upper level in which perforated metal sheeting is laid for the drying floor. Simple roof structure.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare and unaltered example of this building type, and for its prominent setting by the road.
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